Volume IV

Issue : 5: March 9, 2006

• Yahoo! Restricts Bids on Competitors Trade marked Keywords
• Missouri Attorney General Targets Another Cell Phone Records Provider
• IBMs New Consumer Identity Protection Program
• Vonage Canada Complains About "VoIP Tax"
• FTC Settles with Cardsystems over Data Breach
• Toronto Hydro Plans Wireless Internet Access for Downtown
• RIM Concludes Patent Battle With $612.5M Payment to NTP
• Alberta Privacy Commissioner Issues Report on Outsourcing

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Toronto Hydro Plans Wireless Internet Access for Downtown

On March 7th, Toronto Hydro unveiled plans for an ambitious municipal Wi-Fi service that will blanket the downtown core of the City of Toronto. The rollout schedule provides for service in the financial district by June, with expansion to the whole of downtown Toronto by next year.

The service will be free for the first six months, and then subject to an access fee that is still to be determined. Early estimates of the cost to implement the project, which will involve installing transmitters and receivers on streetlight poles, range from $10 million to $100 million. The network will also be used to support Toronto Hydro’s smart meter plan which will allow for time of day billing.

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