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Aurora Cable Internet
Aurora Cable Internet is a
Canadian company,
which provides digital cable television, cable internet and VOIP service in the towns of Aurora and Oak
Ridges, Ontario.
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Bell Internet
Bell Internet, originally and frequently called Sympatico, is the residential
internet service provider
division of Bell Canada. It is affiliated with MSN. As
of March 2006, Bell Internet had over 2 million subscribers in Ontario and
Quebec and is the largest ADSL
ISP in Canada.
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Cable Axion
Cable Axion is a cable television distributor and
Internet service provider
based at Magog, Quebec.
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Cablevision (Canada)
Cablevision du Nord de Québec, formerly Electrovision de La Tuque, is a cable
television and
Internet provider in Canada. The company predominantly serves the
Abitibi-Témiscamingue area, though it serves other parts of Quebec and Ontario
as well.
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Cogeco
Cogeco Inc. (TSX: CGO) is a Canadian media and communications company.
The corporation first entered the television business in the mid-1950s with the
launch of a Radio-Canada affiliate in Trois-Rivières, CKTM-TV. Later the company
expanded with the creation of CKSH-TV in Sherbrooke, a radio network and
diversification in the cable television industry. Until 2008, Cogeco co-owned
the TQS network with CTVglobemedia, as well as eight television stations
affiliated with both TQS and Radio-Canada. TQS and its five owned-and-operated
stations were sold to Remstar Corporation, and the Radio-Canada affiliates were
sold directly to Radio-Canada, in 2008.
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Colbanet
Colbanet (founded in 1996) is one of the largest
Internet Service Providers in
Quebec, offering ADSL 2+, Internet and VoIP services.
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Craig Wireless
Craig Wireless is a Canadian company which offers MMDS broadband communications
services, including digital cable and high-speed Internet, in Manitoba, British
Columbia, California and Greece.
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Dery Telecom
Dery Telecom is a cable television distributor and Internet service provider in
Canada based in Saguenay, Quebec.
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EastLink
Bragg Communications Inc., carrying on business as EastLink, is a group of
companies providing the incumbent cable television services, competitive
internet, Metro Ethernet and wireline telephone services, serving nearly all
major centres of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island as well as Sackville, New
Brunswick and much of rural Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Information Gateway Services
Information Gateway Services (IGS) is an Internet service provider in Ontario.
The company has 18 locations across Canada, serving Windsor, London, Toronto,
and the rest of Southern Ontario. It also serves the Greater Vancouver area in
British Columbia.
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Inukshuk Wireless Partnership
Inukshuk Wireless Partnership is a joint venture between Rogers Communications
and Bell Canada. It is tasked with establishing pre-WiMAX (IEEE 802.16)
infrastructure in Canada. Service is available as Rogers Portable Internet and
Sympatico Unplugged.
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Jet2.net
Jet2.net is the name of an Internet Service Provider in Windsor, Ontario. It was
founded in 1997, and is now owned by former rival MNSi. The company offers a
multitude of services, including broadband internet, dial-up, webhosting, email,
and specialized services for businesses.
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Look Communications
LOOK TV is a digital cable, internet service and web hosting provider. Based in
Montreal, Look was once linked to former crown corporation Teleglobe and Chinese
ISP Inter Pacific Online.
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MNSi
MNSi (Managed Network Services, Incorporated) is an Internet Service Provider
(ISP) headquartered in Windsor, Ontario. It is the second-oldest ISP in that
city, having started up in September of 1995. The company serves 20,000
customers in the area, just behind giants Cogeco and Bell Sympatico. MNSi also
serves nearby areas of Southern Ontario (such as Chatham, Ontario, Leamington,
Ontario, and Metro Detroit in Michigan).
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Mountain Cablevision
Mountain Cable is one of three cable television service providers for the city
of Hamilton, Ontario and its surrounding area. The other two providers are
Cogeco and Source Cable (formerly known as Southmount Cable). Each company has a
monopoly in a specific part of the city of Hamilton; Mountain Cable serves the
Hamilton Mountain area and Haldimand County.
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National Capital Freenet
Founded in 1992 by people affiliated with Carleton University, National Capital
Freenet (NCF), is a non-profit community organization internet service provider,
with the goal of linking people in Canada's capital of Ottawa.
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Ontera
Ontera is a
telecommunications company in Ontario, Canada. It is a subsidiary of
the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.
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Project Chapleau
Project Chapleau is a Wi-Fi internet connection that covers the entire town of
Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. It is the first of its kind in Canada.
It is a wireless mesh Internet technology designed and implemented through a
partnership between Bell Canada Enterprises, Nortel Networks, and the Township
of Chapleau. The project began on November 9th, 2005 and will have a one-year
trial.
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Qiniq
QINIQ is a Canadian company, which utilizes satellite and wireless
communications technology to provide broadband Internet service to remote
communities in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
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Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., is Canada's
largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television
customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, in Southern Ontario, New
Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Rogers Hi-Speed Internet
Rogers Hi-Speed Internet is a broadband
internet service provider in Canada,
owned by Rogers Communications. Rogers previously operated under the brand names
Rogers@Home, Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet, and Road Runner in Newfoundland.
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Rush Communications Ltd.
Rush Communications Ltd. was a Cable TV provider in the rural sections of Nova
Scotia. It also provides broadband internet access. The company was bought out
by EastLink effective September 1, 2007.
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SSI Micro
SSI Micro Ltd. is a Canadian wireless broadband internet service provider
primarily serving remote areas that lack terrestrial service options. SSI Micro
was established in 1990 by Jeffrey Philipp and is headquartered in Yellowknife,
capital of the Northwest Territories. SSI Micro is also a provider of Satellite
Communication services, offered in locations that do not have terrestrial
service options. They offer turnkey Internet systems to other ISPs. They have a
local market serving 60 locations in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
These two territories account for 1/3 of Canada’s landmass covering 3,439,296
km2 (1,327,920 sq mi). They also have an international market including Africa,
Indonesia and Kiribati.
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Source Cable
Source Cable (formerly known as Southmount Cable) is one of three main Cable
television service providers for the city of Hamilton, Ontario. The other two
are Mountain Cablevision and Cogeco. Each company has a monopoly in a specific
part of the city of Hamilton; Source Cable's service area is south of Limeridge
Road to the end of the original Hamilton city limits (south, east and west).
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TAO (collective)
The TAO Collective or The Anarchy Organization is a Canada-based radical and
non-profit computer service provider, offering free email and web hosting in
exchange for mutual aid. As the first of its kind in North America, it has
helped to spawn another radical tech group called resist.ca as well as inspire
others. The organization is founded on anarchist principles of
self-determination, cooperation, and liberty, values expressed by the
empowerment of everyday activists in possessing non-corporate and
non-state-controlled Internet tools. The group now goes by the name of OAT (TAO
backwards and "organizing autonomous telecomms"). Thousands of radical activist
members who are engaged in a variety of anti-corporate, anti-racist, anarchist,
anti-war, and environmental movements now use OAT services.
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Telus
Telus (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a national telecommunications company in Canada
that provides a wide range of communications products and services including
data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. The company is
based in Burnaby, British Columbia. Telus utilizes a CDMA 2000-based mobility
phone network.
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Vidéotron
Vidéotron Limited is an integrated Telecommunications company active in cable
television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, Cable
telephony, wireless communication and Internet access services, primarily
serving Québec, Canada, as well as some parts of Eastern Ontario. It is a
subsidiary of Quebecor Media.
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Wireless Nomad
Wireless Nomad is a non-profit cooperative based in Toronto, Canada providing
subscriber-owned home and business internet along with free Wi-Fi wireless
Internet access to Toronto residents. Free Wi-Fi web access is available at each
of the 100+ nodes, making it one of the largest free Wi-Fi networks in the
country. It was founded by Steve Wilton and Damien Fox in January 2005.