PHONE TRACKING IS ROUTINE NOW

BELL CANADA CONTROLS CANADAS INTERNET-PHONE SERVICES.

Mar. 29, 2012 Bell Aliant invests $2.6 million to bring FibreOP TV and Internet to Yarmouth.

I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY NO OTHER COMPANY IS ALLOWED TO RUN ITS OWN LINES IN CANADA.WERE THE COMPITITION SO WE CANADIANS CAN HAVE CHEAPER INTERNET AND PHONE SERVICES.CAN YOU SAY BELL BOUGHT OUT ALL DICTATORSHIP IN CANADA.AND NOW THE DICTATOR IS BUYING UP ALL THE MEDIA COMPANIES TO.

Bell Canada to buy Astral Media for $3.38B
CBC News Posted: Mar 16, 2012 7:57 AM ET
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2012 7:37 PM ET

BCE, led by CEO George Cope, has agreed to buy Montreal-based Astral Media Inc. for $3.38 billion. BCE, led by CEO George Cope, has agreed to buy Montreal-based Astral Media Inc. for $3.38 billion. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)

Bell Canada, the country's biggest telecommunications company, has agreed to buy Montreal-based Astral Media Inc. for $3.38 billion, giving the company more control over content for its cellphone, internet and land-line services.The company has pledged to pay $50 per share for Astral, a 40 per cent premium over the $36.25 level that Astral Media shares closed at on the TSX on Thursday.
Who owns what.BCE: 28 conventional TV channels including CTV, 30 specialty channels including TSN. Other notable assets include French sports channel RDS, music channel MuchMusic, business channel BNN, the Sympatico.ca website and 33 radio stations.

Astral Media: 24 specialty and pay television services including HBO Canada, the Movie Network, Family, Teletoon, Music Plus, CinéPop and others. Astral also has 84 licensed radio stations in 50 markets across Canada under brands like Virgin Radio and EZ Rock.Rogers: Largest television assets consist of the Citytv channels and Rogers Sportsnet. Rogers also has 55 radio stations across Canada and some of the largest magazines in the country including Chatelaine, Canadian Business and Macleans.Quebecor: TVA, the largest French-language private broadcaster in North America. Quebecor's Sun Media chain consists of 43 daily papers and 200 community papers across the country.Shaw: Bought the lion's share of the former Canwest publishing empire, built around the Global Television network but also 18 specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, History Television and Showcase

Astral owns radio stations and television properties that include HBO Canada, the Movie Network and the Family Channel. It also has an advertising division that operates billboards across the country.Bell's owner, BCE Inc., made the purchase announcement Friday morning.This transaction further accelerates Bell's strategy to deliver leading content like Astral's across our world-leading networks to all the broadband screens — TV, smartphone, tablet or computer — that our customers may choose, Bell chief executive George Cope said in a statement.Astral's assets will reinforce Bell's French-language content significantly. Astral currently takes in more revenue from its Quebec operations than does Bell Media.Bringing [Astral] in with the Bell Media and CTV assets makes for an unmatched competitor now in the marketplace, Cope said at a press conference in Montreal explaining the deal.It's a great day for us, vis-a-vis our competitors,Cope said.Particularly our major competitor here in Quebec.In the aggregate, the combined viewership of Bell and Astral businesses in the province of Quebec adds up to roughly 32 per cent, Bell said Friday. That's within striking distance of the leader, Quebecor, which currently claims just over 36 per cent of viewers.Astral Media founder Ian Greenberg will join BCE's board of directors as part of the deal.
P.O.V.

Does media concentration in Canada concern you? BCE, which owns Bell Media, says it will assume $380 million in Astral's debt as part of the purchase.The transaction would need approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the Competition Bureau before completion.It's the third major content acquisition in a little over 18 months for BCE.In late 2010, the company gave its Bell Media division a huge boost by absorbing the assets of the CTV broadcasting empire.And late last year, Bell partnered with its rival, Rogers, to buy the company that owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors and numerous broadcasting properties — another bold attempt to purchase exclusive content that can be disseminated along the company's numerous wireless and broadcasting networks.

CGI Helps Bell Canada Roll Out Services on Internet Time
http://www.cgi.com/en/case-study/customize-web-enable-billing-system-bell

Web companies run on caffeine and Internet time—that speedy pace made possible by global networks and e-commerce. In fact, some say that 1 year of Internet time equals 7 years of calendar time. So when Bell Canada wanted to roll out a new bundle of Internet services for business customers, it needed a billing system built: now! And CGI delivered a Web-enabled system that runs so smoothly it cut hours from the former processing time.

The Challenge
Under a longstanding contract for outsourcing, CGI does application development and support for Bell Canada. All told, CGI last year did over 200 projects large and small for various Bell Canada billing and customer care systems.One of the most challenging projects was for KeyPak, a bundle of services aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. KeyPak includes long distance, voice mail, Internet access, and Yellow Pages, all rolled into one package that gives companies a single bill for all their telecommunication needs.Before Bell could roll out this service, it needed to customize and Web-enable its billing system. The existing software lacked flexibility, and would have forced Customer Service Reps (CSRs) to rekey information into several different systems to administer the new all-inclusive bundle.And with hungry competitors eyeing Bell’s customers, there wasn’t a second to waste. The question was, as always: What can we offer before the competition? In this market, the word timeliness translates as emergency, and projects that normally take 6 months are often completed in two. So there was a lot of pressure on CGI to deliver.

Another complication came from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the government agency that oversees Bell’s operations. Before Bell could offer KeyPak, it needed permission from the CRTC. This meant developing the technical infrastructure and marketing campaigns to support the new service, and standing ready to launch it the minute the approval came through.

The Strategy
As soon as they heard about KeyPak in June, CGI put together a team of experts in Web development, including C++, Java and Perl programmers.Already knowledgeable about Bell’s third-party billing system, this team mapped out three tools required to support KeyPak. WebCare was redesigned to let Bell’s CSRs look up customers, view and update account information, and set up new customers with KeyPak services. The Transfer Tool enabled CSRs to transfer existing customers from other services to KeyPak, and the Domain Tool let CSRs create and delete custom domain names for their business customers.All three tools were designed to bring information together from several systems through a Web-based interface for speed and ease of use. To be ready in time, the development started even before Bell Canada got the CRTC’s go-ahead to offer the KeyPak bundle.

The Technology
-Architecture: Web-enabled application accessed through WindowsNT workstations running Sun Solaris with Sybase database and CORBA objects
-Third-party application: Arbor/BP Billing and Customer Care from Kenan Systems
(now Lucent Technologies Inc.)
-Users: 200+ Customer Service Reps in Ontario and Quebec, plus a significant number (300+) Customer Administrators
-Development Tools: mix of C, C++, Java and Perl

The Results
CGI’s team was critical to the success of this project, comments Michael Cole, Vice-president, Data Networks at Bell Canada. There was a lot hanging on the outcome of this development, yet several objectives had to be clarified during production, which made the very aggressive delivery date even more stressful. CGI people provided top level expertise backed-up by very long work hours to deliver the right product on time in an extremely challenging context.One week after Bell received CRTC approval to offer KeyPak, CGI delivered WebCare. So the billing system was ready as soon as the first customer signed up. A month later, in mid-September, the team delivered the Transfer Tool, and followed up with the Domain Tool in November.

These Web-enabled tools replaced lots of repetitive keying and saved an immense amount of time in processing KeyPak orders. Tasks that used to take two hours were reduced to just a few minutes.The CSRs who use the system were delighted. In fact, CGI received glowing e-mails saying they found the system exceeded their expectations. The bottom-line? CGI helped Bell Canada roll out an innovative service and protect its customer base by working on Internet time.

Privacy czar probes alleged Net hack by officials
Published On Fri Apr 04 2008 Colin Perkel THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada's privacy office is looking into allegations that federal human-rights investigators tapped into an unwitting woman's Internet connection to post messages on white supremacist websites, a spokesman said Friday.The unauthorized use of someone's computer or network could constitute a serious breach of privacy, the office of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said.The possibility that the (commission) was accessing someone else's computer without their permission and in effect using their network to communicate is something we're certainly going to look into, Colin McKay, who is Stoddart's communications director, said from Ottawa.

Hacking into anyone else's network for your own purposes certainly seems like a breach of judgment at the very least.The allegations arise out of long-running hate hearings before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal involving Toronto resident Mark Lemire.During the hearings, Dean Steacy, an investigator for the human rights commission, admitted using the pseudonym Jadewarr to post messages on white supremacist websites.Following a subpoena, Bell Canada revealed that one Jadewarr post in a chat room had originated from an Internet address belonging to Nelly Hechme, a woman who lives in an Ottawa high-rise close to the commission's office.

Hechme, 26, who apparently had an unsecured wireless Internet link, was reportedly dumbfounded by the use of her account and denied any connection to Steacy or the rights agency.We have to determine exactly what happened. It seems to be unauthorized access of the network then misrepresentation, McKay said.If your neighbour did it to you, you'd be justifiably upset, so to have a government institution undertake that sort of activity would seem poorly considered.Lemire has launched a criminal complaint, arguing rights investigators breached four sections of the Criminal Code that bar unauthorized use of telecommunications devices and computers.Computer connections to the Internet can be made through a wireless access point, which allows users to move around freely.However, a wireless network without a password is also readily accessible to anyone close enough to the access point. A hacker could retrieve confidential data from a personal computer or use the Internet connection to commit crimes traceable only to the unwitting victim.

Just this week, Alberta's privacy commissioner ordered an unprecedented investigation after a man in need of a wireless Internet link was able to easily access an unprotected law office computer in downtown Edmonton containing hundreds of client files.The cases highlight the need for Canadians to protect themselves from hackers looking to defraud a victim or from improper access by government agencies, McKay said.While the federal privacy commissioner has not previously dealt with the hacking of a wireless connection, it has ruled that unauthorized access of a computer could be a violation of personal information.The current case might also point to a need for stronger legislation, McKay said.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/WFive/20110318/w5-cyber-assaults-target-canadians-110318/

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

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Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: March 31, 2012

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too, with a handful of carriers marketing a catalog of surveillance fees to police departments to determine a suspect’s location, trace phone calls and texts or provide other services. Some departments log dozens of traces a month for both emergencies and routine investigations.With cellphones ubiquitous, the police call phone tracing a valuable weapon in emergencies like child abductions and suicide calls and investigations in drug cases and murders. One police training manual describes cellphones as the virtual biographer of our daily activities,providing a hunting ground for learning contacts and travels.But civil liberties advocates say the wider use of cell tracking raises legal and constitutional questions, particularly when the police act without judicial orders. While many departments require warrants to use phone tracking in nonemergencies, others claim broad discretion to get the records on their own, according to 5,500 pages of internal records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union from 205 police departments nationwide.

The internal documents, which were provided to The New York Times, open a window into a cloak-and-dagger practice that police officials are wary about discussing publicly. While cell tracking by local police departments has received some limited public attention in the last few years, the A.C.L.U. documents show that the practice is in much wider use — with far looser safeguards — than officials have previously acknowledged.The issue has taken on new legal urgency in light of a Supreme Court ruling in January finding that a Global Positioning System tracking device placed on a drug suspect’s car violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches. While the ruling did not directly involve cellphones — many of which also include GPS locators — it raised questions about the standards for cellphone tracking, lawyers say.The police records show many departments struggling to understand and abide by the legal complexities of cellphone tracking, even as they work to exploit the technology.In cities in Nevada, North Carolina and other states, police departments have gotten wireless carriers to track cellphone signals back to cell towers as part of nonemergency investigations to identify all the callers using a particular tower, records show.In California, state prosecutors advised local police departments on ways to get carriers to clone a phone and download text messages while it is turned off.In Ogden, Utah, when the Sheriff’s Department wants information on a cellphone, it leaves it up to the carrier to determine what the sheriff must provide. Some companies ask that when we have time to do so, we obtain court approval for the tracking request, the Sheriff’s Department said in a written response to the A.C.L.U.And in Arizona, even small police departments found cell surveillance so valuable that they acquired their own tracking equipment to avoid the time and expense of having the phone companies carry out the operations for them. The police in the town of Gilbert, for one, spent $244,000 on such equipment. Cell carriers, staffed with special law enforcement liaison teams, charge police departments from a few hundred dollars for locating a phone to more than $2,200 for a full-scale wiretap of a suspect, records show.

Most of the police departments cited in the records did not return calls seeking comment. But other law enforcement officials said the legal questions were outweighed by real-life benefits.The police in Grand Rapids, Mich., for instance, used a cell locator in February to find a stabbing victim who was in a basement hiding from his attacker.It’s pretty valuable, simply because there are so many people who have cellphones, said Roxann Ryan, a criminal analyst with Iowa’s state intelligence branch.We find people, she said,and it saves lives.Many departments try to keep cell tracking secret, the documents show, because of possible backlash from the public and legal problems. Although there is no evidence that the police have listened to phone calls without warrants, some defense lawyers have challenged other kinds of evidence gained through warrantless cell tracking.Do not mention to the public or the media the use of cellphone technology or equipment used to locate the targeted subject,the Iowa City Police Department warned officers in one training manual. It should also be kept out of police reports, it advised.In Nevada, a training manual warned officers that using cell tracing to locate someone without a warrant IS ONLY AUTHORIZED FOR LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCIES!! The practice, it said, had been misused in some standard investigations to collect information the police did not have the authority to collect.Some cell carriers have been complying with such requests, but they cannot be expected to continue to do so as it is outside the scope of the law, the advisory said.Continued misuse by law enforcement agencies will undoubtedly backfire.Another training manual prepared by California prosecutors in 2010 advises police officials on how to get the good stuff using cell technology.

The presentation said that since the Supreme Court first ruled on wiretapping law in 1928 in a Prohibition-era case involving a bootlegger, subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government.Technological breakthroughs, it continued, have made it possible for the government to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.In interviews, lawyers and law enforcement officials agreed that there was uncertainty over what information the police are entitled to get legally from cell companies, what standards of evidence they must meet and when courts must get involved.A number of judges have come to conflicting decisions in balancing cellphone users’ constitutional privacy rights with law enforcement’s need for information.In a 2010 ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, said a judge could require the authorities to obtain a warrant based on probable cause before demanding cellphone records or location information from a provider. (A similar case from Texas is pending in the Fifth Circuit.)It’s terribly confusing, and it’s understandable, when even the federal courts can’t agree, said Michael Sussman, a Washington lawyer who represents cell carriers. The carriers push back a lot when the police urgently seek out cell locations or other information in what are purported to be life-or-death situations, he said. Not every emergency is really an emergency.Congress and about a dozen states are considering legislative proposals to tighten restrictions on the use of cell tracking.While cell tracing allows the police to get records and locations of users, the A.C.L.U. documents give no indication that departments have conducted actual wiretapping operations — listening to phone calls — without court warrants required under federal law.Much of the debate over phone surveillance in recent years has focused on the federal government and counterterrorism operations, particularly a once-secret program authorized by President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks. It allowed the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on phone calls of terrorism suspects and monitor huge amounts of phone and e-mail traffic without court-approved intelligence warrants.

Clashes over the program’s legality led Congress to broaden the government’s eavesdropping powers in 2008. As part of the law, the Bush administration insisted that phone companies helping in the program be given immunity against lawsuits.
Since then, the wide use of cell surveillance has seeped down to even small, rural police departments in investigations unrelated to national security.It’s become run of the mill,said Catherine Crump, an A.C.L.U. lawyer who coordinated the group’s gathering of police records. And the advances in technology are rapidly outpacing the state of the law.