Journalist coverage

The Canadian Telecom Summit appears in 3 of the 4 Toronto dailies. The National Post included a two page centre spread in the Financial Post section. The Globe has an article as does the Toronto Sun.

Help me understand a fine point of journalistic integrity. When there are leading telecom consultants in the audience, why would the National Post and Globe and Mail seek quotes from analysts who weren’t even at the Summit?

Update: The Toronto Star, which hasn’t covered the Canadian Telecom Summit in 4 years, came out of the dark in a story that featured a discussion of Monday’s Illegal Content session. Their reporter thought we were in Mississauga (The Toronto Congress Centre really is in Toronto). Maybe the Star’s reporters have been missing the conference because they are going to the wrong location!

Community broadband

More coverage of the opening day at The Canadian Telecom Summit, discussing Monday’s Community and Private Broadband Network panel can be found at itBusiness.ca.

Illegal content session

With a line-up of 21 global telecom industry leaders as keynote speakers, one of the highlights so far of The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit was a panel of non-telecom professionals. Not to diminish in any way the speeches delivered by the industry insiders, but some of the most impactful discourse was from Paul Gillespie and Bernie Farber delivering impassioned calls to action to help clean up the darker sides of the Internet.

The Canadian Press wirestory talks about the session.

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What a start

The National Post carried a preview story of The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit in this morning’s paper, kicking off a discussion of some of the regulatory issues that will be canvassed over the next 3 days.

The opening 3 keynotes, from Vonage founder Jeff Citron, Palm Americas head Michael Moskowitz and Ericsson CTO Nikos Katinakis got things going.

Messages included the future of mobile TV – including highlights from Palm’s MOBIfest. A new enabler for mobile blogging. Nikos spoke of some of the early success stories for service providers.

On the wires

Canadian Press has an advisory out about The Canadian Telecom Summit taking place this week.

It is sandwiched between an announcement about a fertilizer company holding their investor day Monday and an investment symposium by the Canadian Petroleum producers… there is a joke in there somewhere… comments, anyone?

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