Northwestel Inc. (stylized as NorthwesTel ) is a Canadian telecommunications company that is the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) and long-distance carrier in the territories of Yukon , the Northwest Territories , Nunavut , and part of northern British Columbia and northern Alberta . Originally established in 1979 by the Canadian National Railway from CN's northern telecommunications assets, it has been owned by BCE Inc. (formerly Bell Canada Enterprises) since 1988.
120-684: The earliest telephone service in Northwestel's present-day operating territory was in Dawson City , established in 1899 just after the peak of the Klondike Gold Rush . However, that system was not linked into the North American phone network until the 1960s. Communications with the outside required the use of radio or radio telegraphy and did not connect with telephone lines. The independent company, Yukon Telephone Syndicate,
240-482: A National Historic Site of Canada on Bonanza Creek. The last dredge shut down in 1966, and the hydroelectric facility, at North Fork, was closed when the City of Dawson declined an offer to purchase it. Since then, placer miners returned to the status of being the primary mining operators in the region until recently. In 2016, Goldcorp announced a takeover of Kaminak Gold's Coffee Project south of Dawson. This marked
360-513: A de facto world standard, combined with Ericsson's other mobile standards, such as D-AMPS and PDC , meant that by the start of 1997, Ericsson had an estimated 40% share of the world's mobile market, with around 54 million subscribers. There were also around 188 million AXE lines in place or on order in 117 countries. Telecom and chip companies worked in the 1990s to provide Internet access over mobile telephones. Early versions such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) used packet data over
480-469: A strategic partnership to combine the former's web browser and server software with the latter's mobile-internet technologies. In 2000, the Dot-com bubble burst with marked economic implications for Sweden . Ericsson, the world's largest producer of mobile telecommunications equipment, shed thousands of jobs, as did the country's Internet consulting firms and dot-com start-ups . In the same year, Intel ,
600-500: A National Historic Site encompassing the historic core of the town. The Downtown Hotel at Second Avenue and Queen Street has garnered media attention for its unusual Sourtoe Cocktail , which features a real mummified human toe. The hotel and the toe received increased attention in June 2017 after the toe was stolen; it was soon returned to the hotel by mail along with a written apology. Bonanza Creek has two National Historic Sites;
720-492: A complete public telephone exchange service in the Yukon. Whitehorse converted from partial dial to full dial service on October 31, 1960. The local communities' ring-down phones were then replaced with local exchange service by using surplus central office switches that could be acquired at a relatively-low cost. The wire line facilities along the highway was changed from ring-down services to multi-party lines off dial exchanges as
840-486: A consortium of Indigenous communities from the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The sale is expected to complete by the end of 2024. CN inherited a mixture of switching technologies, some dial exchanges (Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Hay River, Fort Smith), some manual exchanges (Dawson City). Most settlements had no phone service or only one or two lines from a larger centre. Dial telephone service
960-495: A dial on the front and appropriate changes to the electronics. Elaborate decals decorated the cases. World War I , the subsequent Great Depression and the loss of its Russian assets after the Revolution slowed the company's development while sales to other countries fell by about half. The acquisition of other telecommunications companies put pressure on Ericsson's finances; in 1925, Karl Fredric Wincrantz took control of
1080-1007: A driver in the development of 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE and 5G technology, and the evolution towards all-IP, and it develops and deploys advanced LTE systems, but it is still developing the older GSM , WCDMA , and CDMA technologies. The company's networks portfolio also includes microwave transport, Internet Protocol (IP) networks, fixed-access services for copper and fiber, and mobile broadband modules, several levels of fixed broadband access, radio access networks from small pico cells to high-capacity macro cells and controllers for radio base stations. Ericsson's network rollout services employ in-house capabilities, subcontractors and central resources to make changes to live networks. Services such as technology deployment, network transformation, support services and network optimization are also provided. This unit provides core networks, Operations Support Systems such as network management and analytics, and Business Support Systems such as billing and mediation. Within
1200-461: A handful of exchanges by the spring of 1980. The pole line remained used until the early 1980s for multiparty line service for rural telephone customers, who are now served by point-to-point radio connections for their telephone service. The removal of the wires provoked a small rural protest from people who had hooked their radio sets to the wire to pick up Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio signals, which inadvertently were carried along
1320-690: A line north from Terrace, was not acted on. On 1 July 1956, those areas, through some of which CNT later ran a microwave line, became owned by the North-west Telephone Company, which was a subsidiary of the B.C. Telephone Company. In October 1958, CNT purchased the Whitehorse-based Yukon Telephone Company and also the DOT system (established by the US Army) outright. From there, it began to develop
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#17327802460221440-457: A line stretching from Barrow, Alaska, to the east side of Greenland , with a scatterwave antenna in Hay River, Northwest Territories. These facilities, such as the ones between Elsa, Yukon and Arctic Red River (now Tsiigehtchic), Northwest Territories, which was completed in 1960, were also used meanwhile to carry civilian long-distance circuits until satellite facilities were implemented in
1560-521: A lonely mountaintop, to be ready to restore service in case of a failure. That route was upgraded to modern digital microwave technology in the early 1990s. Direct distance dialing (DDD) was first introduced in November 1972, just 21 years after its initial introduction in Englewood, New Jersey , and 14 years after introduction to Canada at Toronto and Montreal . It had become available on all but
1680-566: A major contributor to the development of the telecommunications industry and is one of the leaders in 5G. The company was founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and is jointly controlled by the Wallenberg family through its holding company Investor AB , and the universal bank Handelsbanken through its investment company Industrivärden. The Wallenbergs and the Handelsbanken sphere acquired their voting-strong A-shares, and thus
1800-469: A million people lost their jobs in the global telecom industry over the two years. The collapse of U.S. carrier WorldCom , with more than $ 107 billion in assets, was the biggest in U.S. history. The sector's problems caused bankruptcies and job losses, and led to changes in the leadership of several major companies. Ericsson made 20,000 more staff redundant and raised about $ 3 billion from its shareholders. In June 2002, Infineon Technologies (then
1920-466: A purchase from the incumbent provider Telus. The local Taku River Tlingit First Nation had advocated for this change because of "jurisdictional issues" preventing the community from receiving Internet services from Telus. Northwestel assumed control over the Atlin telephone exchange on November 23, 2023. In June 2024, Northwestel and Bell Canada announced that Northwestel will be sold to Sixty North Unity,
2040-524: A shift in the region, drawing the interest of the major gold mining companies in the Yukon. In 2017, Newmont Mining Corporation , Barrick Gold and Agnico Eagle Mines Limited have all committed significant investment, engaging in the exploration of properties across the Central Yukon. There are eight National Historic Sites of Canada located in Dawson, including the "Dawson Historical Complex",
2160-489: A short space of years: McDame Lake, BC; Ketza River, Yukon. Elsa survives as a rate centre only because it was eclipsed by relatively stable Keno, which is served by the same exchange. Northwestel Cable is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwestel. Originally approved by the CRTC to provide cable television in numerous communities across the north, the timing was poor as DTH satellite services became available; Northwestel Cable
2280-457: A year later it moved headquarters from Sweden to Japan. As a joint venture with Sony, Ericsson's mobile telephone production was moved into the company Sony Ericsson in 2001. The following is a list of mobile phones marketed under the brand name Ericsson. Ericsson Mobile Platforms existed for eight years; on 12 February 2009, Ericsson announced it would be merged with the mobile platform company of STMicroelectronics , ST-NXP Wireless, to create
2400-578: Is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon . It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census , making it the second-largest municipality in Yukon. Prior to the late modern period the area was used for hunting and gathering by the Hän-speaking people of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and their forebears. The heart of their homeland
2520-721: Is attended by various high schools across Yukon. The city was home to the Dawson City Nuggets hockey team, which in 1905 challenged the Ottawa Silver Seven for the Stanley Cup . Travelling to Ottawa by dog sled , ship, and train, the team lost the most lopsided series in Stanley Cup history, losing two games by the combined score of 32 to 4. In 2004, the Yukon government removed the mayor and
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#17327802460222640-421: Is not known by the contributor of this chart.) Northwestel was established in 1979 by its owner, Canadian National Railways , spinning off the "northwest" operations of Canadian National Telecommunications (which is not to be confused with CNCP Telecommunications , a joint venture that CP Telegraphs and CN Telegraphs formed). The Newfoundland operation was, the same year, spun off as Terra Nova Tel (TNT). TNT
2760-665: Is now simply the "City of Dawson". The Yukon River is navigable (when not frozen) and historically was travelled by commercial riverboats to Whitehorse and downstream into Alaska and the Bering Sea . Yukon School of Visual Arts , a university level accredited art program, is based in Dawson City. Robert Service School, Dawson City's only grade school, is named in honour of British-Canadian poet and writer Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958). The Robert Service School offers Kindergarten – Grade 12 and
2880-1050: Is one of only 28 schools in the Yukon Territory. Television Radio Print The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Dawson City. Ericsson Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson ( lit. ' Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson ' ), commonly known as Ericsson , is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm , Sweden . The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in information and communications technology for telecommunications service providers and enterprises, including, among others, 3G , 4G , and 5G equipment, and Internet Protocol (IP) and optical transport systems. The company employs around 100,000 people and operates in more than 180 countries. Ericsson has over 57,000 granted patents. Ericsson has been
3000-904: Is part of 'Group Function Technology' and addresses several facets of network architecture: wireless access networks; radio access technologies; broadband technologies; packet technologies; multimedia technologies; services software; EMF safety and sustainability; security; and global services. The head of research since 2012 is Sara Mazur . Group Function Technology holds research co-operations with several major universities and research institutes including Lund University in Sweden, Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary and Beijing Institute of Technology in China. Ericsson also holds research co-operations within several European research programs such as GigaWam and OASE . Ericsson holds 33,000 granted patents and
3120-521: Is regulated more closely like all other companies in Canada — price regulation and a split rate base — that is appropriate to the highly competitive environment in which they operate; Northwestel does not have a split rate base, however. On December 14, 2011, by way of Telecom Regulatory Policy 2011-711, the CRTC announced that the territory of Northwestel would now be opened to local competition beginning 1 May 2012. The company's original service territory
3240-844: Is the number-one holder of GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA, and LTE essential patents. In 2023, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ’s Annual PCT Review ranked Ericsson's number of patent applications published under the PCT System as 7th in the world, with 1,863 patent applications being published during 2023. Ericsson hosts a developer program called Ericsson Developer Connection designed to encourage development of applications and services. Ericsson also has an open innovation initiative for beta applications and beta API's & tools called Ericsson Labs. The company hosts several internal innovation competitions among its employees. In May 2022, it
3360-582: Is the wettest month. However, April, one of the six warmer months is sufficiently drier than October and November. Hence the letter 's' is used instead of 'f' (as in Dfc ). The average temperature in July is 15.7 °C (60.3 °F) and in January is −26.0 °C (−14.8 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded is 35.0 °C (95 °F) on 9 July 1899 and 18 June 1950. The lowest temperature ever recorded
3480-423: Is −58.3 °C (−73 °F) on 3 February 1947. It experiences a wide range of temperatures surpassing 30 °C (86 °F) in most summers and dropping below −40 °C (−40 °F) in winter. In the very cold month of December 1917, the temperature did not rise above −37.2 °C (−35 °F) and it averaged −46.3 °C (−51 °F). The community is at an elevation of 320 m (1,050 ft) and
3600-432: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Dawson had a population of 1,577 living in 770 of its 836 total private dwellings, a change of 14.7% from its 2016 population of 1,375 . With a land area of 30.91 km (11.93 sq mi), it had a population density of 51.0/km (132.1/sq mi) in 2021. According to the 2021 Census, the town is predominately European Canadian with 60.8% of
3720-479: The Alaska Highway bypassed it 518 kilometres (322 mi) to the south. The economic damage to Dawson City was such that Whitehorse , the highway's hub, replaced it as territorial capital in 1953. Dawson City's population languished around the 600–900 mark through the 1960s and 1970s, but has risen and held stable since then. The high price of gold has made modern placer mining operations profitable, and
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3840-781: The Discovery Claim and the Dredge No. 4 . Tr'ochëk is the site of a traditional Hän fishing camp on the flats at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River . The site is owned and managed by the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation . In addition to the fishing camp remains, the site includes traditional plant harvesting areas and lookout points. Diamond Tooth Gertie's Gambling Hall puts on nightly vaudeville shows during tourist season, from May to September. Every February, Dawson City acts as
3960-562: The Legislative Assembly of Yukon , Dawson City is in the electoral district of Klondike , currently represented by Sandy Silver of the Yukon Liberal Party . The government of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in , now a self-governing First Nation , is also located in Dawson. In 2024, councillors refused to swear allegiance to King Charles III , in solidarity with councillor-elect Darwyn Lynn, who refused in protest against
4080-619: The Tintina Fault . This fault has created the Tintina Trench and continues eastward for several hundred kilometres. Erosional remnants of lava flows form outcrops immediately north and west of Dawson City. Dawson City has a subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification : Dsc ), with significantly higher continentality (greater temperature swings) than the territory capital of Whitehorse . Despite this classification, most precipitation actually occurs during summer and July
4200-530: The Wallenberg family , and some Swedish government backing. Marcus Wallenberg Jr. negotiated a deal with several Swedish banks to rebuild Ericsson financially. The banks gradually increased their possession of LM Ericsson "A" shares, while International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) was still the largest shareholder. In 1960, the Wallenberg family bought ITT's shares in Ericsson, and has since controlled
4320-720: The Watson Lake, YT exchange, was covered by 403 prior to 1979. In 1997, the single area code 867 was introduced to replace 403 and 819, although the British Columbia locations, by now serviced by 250 , remained on 250. The inauguration of 867 signaled a truly trans-northern communications network that was finally capable of routing calls across the north without having to route through the territories of southern telephone companies. A Service Improvement Plan (SIP), similar to ones implemented by other Canadian telephone companies, extended basic levels of service to more of
4440-556: The Wireless Strategic Initiative , a consortium of four telecommunications suppliers in Europe – Ericsson, Nokia , Alcatel (France) and Siemens (Germany) – to develop and test new prototypes for advanced wireless communications systems. Later that year, the consortium partners invited other companies to join them in a Wireless World Research Forum in 2001. In December 1999, Microsoft and Ericsson announced
4560-604: The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (it was not a member of the Trans-Canada Telephone System or Telecom Canada), the last of seven actual independent companies within Northwestel's operating area were acquired by the company's predecessor CNT in 1964. A CRTC order in 2003 transferred a small section of Alberta , that had no telephone service, to Northwestel's operating area, as it could better serve the location from Fort Smith than could Telus due to isolation and network cost. Fort Fitzgerald residents initiated
4680-702: The 1980s. The microwave system on the Alaska Highway was inaugurated with a phone call from Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker , who was visiting Whitehorse, to US President John F. Kennedy in Washington, DC . The following year, the line's worth was proven in the Cuban Missile Crisis . With the possibility of a nuclear strike by the Soviet Union , the phone company hurriedly dispatched radio technicians to each site, often on
4800-690: The 1990s, during the emergence of the Internet, Ericsson was regarded as slow to realize its potential and falling behind in the area of IP technology. But the company had established an Internet project in 1995 called Infocom Systems to exploit opportunities leading from fixed-line telecom and IT. CEO Lars Ramqvist wrote in the 1996 annual report that in all three of its business areas – Mobile Telephones and Terminals, Mobile Systems, and Infocom Systems – "we will expand our operations as they relate to customer service and Internet Protocol (IP) access (Internet and intranet access)". The growth of GSM , which became
4920-815: The Alaska Highway and the Mackenzie Highway were routed north–south. Telecommunication lines and tropo links routed north–south, following the natural transportation corridors. As a result, the area's low requirements were met by long-distance switching as part of southern area codes - 403 in the west and 819 in the east. The Yukon was also covered by 403, not 604, since its lines were handled, prior to Direct Distance Dialing, by operators in Edmonton, Alberta. The northern British Columbia locations, plus Fort Liard, NT until October 1981, were served by area code 604 so that there would be uniformity of dialing codes within that province. Lower Post, BC , linked with
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5040-596: The CN Telegram service via the telephone operator. In 1943, the US Army completed the first terrestrial long-distance system in the form of a pole line along the Alaska Highway . Components that normally took months to build were assembled in weeks. Although limited in capacity, the system after the war served as the backbone long-distance network that linked Whitehorse with the south. It provided ringdown magneto phones to highway establishments. The US Army system
5160-528: The CRTC has been underway regarding the wholesale prices Northwestel is permitted to charge competitors for access to its fibre cable connecting the Northwest Territories to southern Canada. In March 2015, the CRTC ordered Northwestel to reduce residential Internet rates in the Northwest Territories, while a final decision regarding wholesale rates is still pending. In November 2023, Northwestel took control of telephone service in Atlin, British Columbia , following
5280-413: The CRTC's request for a network modernization plan, which resulted in considerable opposition from northern rival telecoms. In February 2013, Northwestel released a revised modernization plan, which president Paul Flaherty explained to the public. But the new plan was criticized by the government of Nunavut and Northwestel's largest competitor SSi Micro. Parallel to this, another regulatory process before
5400-835: The Digital Services unit, there is an m-Commerce offering, which focuses on service providers and facilitates their working with financial institutions and intermediaries. Ericsson has announced m-commerce deals with Western Union and African wireless carrier MTN. The unit is active in 180 countries; it supplies managed services, systems integration, consulting, network rollout, design and optimization, broadcast services, learning services and support. The company also works with television and media, public safety, and utilities. Ericsson claims to manage networks that serve more than 1 billion subscribers worldwide, and to support customer networks that serve more than 2.5 billion subscribers. Ericsson's Broadcast Services unit
5520-510: The GSM standard and began testing it in 1996. Japanese operator NTT Docomo signed deals to partner with Ericsson and Nokia , who came together in 1997 to support WCDMA over rival standards. DoCoMo was the first operator with a live 3G network, using its own version of WCDMA called FOMA . Ericsson was a significant developer of the WCDMA version of GSM, while US-based chip developer Qualcomm promoted
5640-417: The Internet using their telephones. Ericsson was working on ways to improve WCDMA as operators were buying and rolling it out; it was the first generation of 3G access. New advances included IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and the next evolution of WCDMA, called High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA). It was initially deployed in the download version called HSDPA ; the technology spread from the first test calls in
5760-576: The Strategy and Technology Group of inCode, a North American business and consulting-services company; Nortel's majority shareholding (50% plus one share) in LG-Nortel, a joint venture between LG Electronics and Nortel Networks providing sales, R&D and industrial capacity in South Korea, now known as Ericsson -LG; further Nortel carrier-division assets, relating from Nortel's GSM business in
5880-607: The UK. The Nordic countries were also Ericsson customers; they were encouraged by the growth of telephone services in Sweden. Other countries and colonies were exposed to Ericsson products through the influence of their parent countries. These included Australia and New Zealand, which by the late 1890s were Ericsson's largest non-European markets. Mass production techniques were now firmly established; telephones were losing some of their ornate finish and decoration. Despite their successes elsewhere, Ericsson did not make significant sales in
6000-623: The US in late 2005 to 59 commercial networks in September 2006. HSPA would provide the world's first mobile broadband. In July 2016, Hans Vestberg stepped down as Ericsson's CEO after heading the company for six years. Jan Frykhammar, who had been working for the company since 1991 stepped in as interim CEO while Ericsson searched for a full-time replacement. On 16 January 2017, following Ericsson's announcement on 26 October 2016, new CEO Börje Ekholm started and interim CEO Jan Frykhammar stepped down
6120-819: The United States and Canada; Optimi Corporation, a U.S.–Spanish telecommunications vendor specializing in network optimization and management; and Pride, a consulting and systems-integration company operating in Italy. In 2011, Ericsson acquired manufacturing and research facilities, and staff from the Guangdong Nortel Telecommunication Equipment Company (GDNT) as well as Nortel's Multiservice Switch business. Ericsson acquired U.S. company Telcordia Technologies in January 2012, an operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) company. In March, Ericsson announced it
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#17327802460226240-527: The United States. AT&T ’s Western Electric Company (via the Bell System ), Kellogg and Automatic Electric dominated the market. Ericsson eventually sold its U.S. assets. Sales in Mexico led to inroads into South American countries. South Africa and China were also generating significant sales. With his company now multinational, Lars Ericsson stepped down from the company in 1901. Ericsson ignored
6360-712: The Yellowknife Telephone Company (at $ 250 per share); and in May 1964, CNT purchased the exchange in Fort Smith. Around 1961, the company name was changed from Canadian National Telegraphs to Canadian National Telecommunications. The original pole line along the Alaska Highway was overbuilt by a modern analogue microwave line which was contracted for between CNT and the US Department of Defense on 25 March 1959 and completed in 1961. Like much of
6480-553: The Yukon Telephone Company at Whitehorse in the 1950s, was introduced by CNT/Northwestel along all major highways, the Mackenzie River valley and additional off-road regions, during the 1960-1990 period. Further improvements in the 1990s eliminated "double-hop" relays between two satellite-served communities, halving the transmission time for a satellite as much as 26,000 mi (42,000 km) away over
6600-408: The acquisition of Envivio , a software encoding company. In April 2016, Ericsson acquired Polish and Ukrainian operations of software development company Ericpol , a long-time supplier to Ericsson. Approximately 2,300 Ericpol employees joined Ericsson, bringing software development competence in radio, cloud, and IP. On 20 June 2017, Bloomberg disclosed that Ericsson hired Morgan Stanley to explore
6720-473: The alternative system CDMA2000 , building on the popularity of CDMA in the US market. This resulted in a patent infringement lawsuit that was resolved in March 1999 when the two companies agreed to pay each other royalties for the use of their respective technologies and Ericsson purchased Qualcomm's wireless infrastructure business and some R&D resources. Ericsson issued a profit warning in March 2001. Over
6840-400: The average rainfall in July is 49.0 mm (1.93 in) and the average snowfall in January is 27.6 cm (10.87 in). Dawson has an average total annual snowfall of 166.5 cm (65.55 in) and averages 70 frost free days per year. The town is built on a layer of frozen earth, which may pose a threat to the town's infrastructure in the future if the permafrost melts. In
6960-719: The coming year, sales to operators halved. Mobile telephones became a burden; the company's telephones unit made a loss of SEK 24 billion in 2000. A fire in a Philips chip factory in New Mexico in March 2000 caused severe disruption to Ericsson's phone production, dealing a coup de grâce to Ericsson's mobile phone hopes. Mobile phones would be spun off into a joint venture with Sony, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, in October 2001. Ericsson launched several rounds of restructuring, refinancing and job-cutting; during 2001, staff numbers fell from 107,000 to 85,000. A further 20,000 went
7080-482: The communities along the line received central office switches, most of which were Ericsson Rurax switches, which were modified in the late 1970s to enable direct dialing of long-distance calls but without automatic number identification . The more remote multi-party lines were switched from wire to Exicom radios, and most of the Ruraxes were replaced in the mid-1980s with modern solid-state digital switches. However,
7200-797: The communities of Muncho Lake, BC and Toad River, BC. Since the completion of fibre fully to Whitehorse, internet package speeds and transfer caps in Whitehorse have both been increased significantly. Unlike southern phone companies, Northwestel occasionally must decommission exchanges and facilities in previously active communities that are ceasing to exist. In several cases, a large investment in wiring distribution and exchange infrastructure must be abandoned or removed, and may become surplus (no longer producing revenue to cover its acquisition and installation cost), not being required elsewhere. Past communities served by Northwestel that have vanished include: Other communities have been added and then deleted in
7320-475: The company and accepted an offer of $ 1,000 for the cables, to be shipped by the executor. The cables arrived at a desperate time long after they were expected, which allowed an upgrade of the lines. The cables turned out to be worth $ 35,000. An opportunity for CNT to acquire, from the Canadian government , telephone services in the area of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John, British Columbia , as well as Atlin and
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#17327802460227440-690: The company appointed Michael Wallis-Brown as vice president responsible for global mobile financial services. As of 2016 , members of the board of directors of LM Ericsson were: Leif Johansson , Jacob Wallenberg , Kristin S. Rinne, Helena Stjernholm, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Börje Ekholm, Ulf J. Johansson, Mikael Lännqvist, Zlatko Hadzic, Kjell-Åke Soting, Nora Denzel, Kristin Skogen Lund, Pehr Claesson, Karin Åberg and Roger Svensson. Ericsson has structured its R&D in three levels depending on when products or technologies will be introduced to customers and users. Its research and development organization
7560-477: The company by acquiring most of the shares. Wincrantz was partly funded by Ivar Kreuger , an international financier. The company was renamed Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson . Kreuger started showing interest in the company, being a major owner of Wincrantz holding companies. Ericsson was saved from bankruptcy and closure with the help of banks including Stockholms Enskilda Bank (now Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken ) and other Swedish investment banks controlled by
7680-501: The company to Saab Microwave Systems . In 2007, Ericsson acquired carrier edge-router maker Redback Networks , and then Entrisphere, a US-based company providing fiber-access technology. In September 2007, Ericsson acquired an 84% interest in German customer-care and billing software firm LHS , a stake later raised to 100%. In 2008, Ericsson sold its enterprise PBX division to Aastra Technologies , and acquired Tandberg Television ,
7800-423: The company. In the 1920s and 1930s, the world telephone markets were being organized and stabilized by many governments. The fragmented town-by-town systems serviced by small, private companies that had evolved were integrated and offered for lease to a single company. Ericsson obtained some leases, which represented further sales of equipment to the growing networks. Ericsson got almost one-third of its sales under
7920-924: The control of Ericsson, after the fall of the Kreuger empire in the early 1930s. Ericsson is the inventor of Bluetooth technology. Lars Magnus Ericsson began his association with telephones in his youth as an instrument maker. He worked for a firm that made telegraph equipment for the Swedish government agency Telegrafverket . In 1876, at the age of 30, he started a telegraph repair shop with help from his friend Carl Johan Andersson in central Stockholm and repaired foreign-made telephones. In 1878, Ericsson began making and selling his own telephone equipment. His telephones were not technically innovative. In 1878, he agreed to supply telephones and switchboards to Sweden's first telecommunications operating company, Stockholms Allmänna Telefonaktiebolag. As production grew in
8040-453: The control of its telephone operating companies. Ericsson introduced the world's first fully automatic mobile telephone system, MTA , in 1956. It released one of the world's first hands-free speaker telephones in the 1960s. In 1954, it released the Ericofon . Ericsson crossbar switching equipment was used in telephone administrations in many countries. In 1983 the company introduced the ERIPAX suite of network products and services. In
8160-603: The creation of the mobile phone manufacturing joint venture: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications . Ten years later, in February 2012, Ericsson sold its stake in the joint venture; Ericsson said it wanted to focus on the global wireless market as a whole. Lower stock prices and job losses affected many telecommunications companies in 2001. The major equipment manufacturers – Motorola (U.S.), Lucent Technologies (U.S.), Cisco Systems (U.S.), Marconi (UK), Siemens (Germany), Nokia (Finland), as well as Ericsson – all announced job cuts in their home countries and subsidiaries around
8280-464: The early 20th century that were buried in (and preserved by) the permafrost . These silent-era film reels, dating from "between 1903 and 1929, were uncovered in the rubble beneath [an] old hockey rink". (See Dawson Film Find .) Owing to its dangerous chemical volatility, the historical find was moved by military transport to Library and Archives Canada and the U.S. Library of Congress for both transfer to safety film and storage. A documentary about
8400-508: The equator. Nevertheless, bad atmosphere conditions can still skip satellite signals out of the atmosphere for far-north points where the antenna points horizontally across the ground. (The effect is similar when looking at an oar in the water, and the oar appears bent.) Until the 1980s, Northwestel's current operating area (including the Bell Canada area it acquired in 1992) was characterized by north–south communications and transportation links. Airlines flew mainly north–south. Highways such as
8520-404: The existing GSM network, in a form known as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), but these services, known as 2.5G, were fairly rudimentary and did not achieve much mass-market success. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) had prepared the specifications for a 3G mobile service that included several technologies. Ericsson pushed hard for the WCDMA (wideband CDMA ) form based on
8640-496: The find, Dawson City: Frozen Time , was released in 2016. The City of Dawson and the nearby ghost town of Forty Mile are featured prominently in the novels and short stories of American author Jack London , including The Call of the Wild . London lived in the Dawson area from October 1897 to June 1898. Other writers who lived in and wrote of Dawson City include Pierre Berton and the poet Robert Service . The childhood home of
8760-679: The following day. In June 2018, Ericsson, Inc. and Ericsson AB have agreed to pay $ 145,893 to settle potential civil liability for an apparent violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 538 (SSR).1 Around 2000, companies and governments began to push for standards for mobile Internet. In May 2000, the European Commission created
8880-679: The former is now used as a residency and retreat for professional writers administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada . In 2023, the Dawson City townsite became part of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site , because of its archaeological record highlighting the transformation of the site from predominanty Indigenous to predominantly European use, and the adaptations that the Indigenous people made in response to European colonialism. Dawson City lies on
9000-471: The four council seats. Steins was succeeded in office by former mayor Peter Jenkins , who in turn was succeeded by Wayne Potoroka. In 2021, four candidates ran for mayor, and former city councillor William (Bill) Kendrick won the election and is the current mayor of Dawson City. Other past mayors of Dawson City have included Art Webster , Colin Mayes , Yolanda Burkhard , Mike Comadina and Vi Campbell. In
9120-435: The growth of automatic telephony in the United States and concentrated on manual exchange designs. Their first dial telephone was produced in 1921, although sales of the early automatic switching systems were slow until the equipment had proven itself on the world's markets. Telephones of this period had a simpler design and finish, and many of the early automatic desk telephones in Ericsson's catalogues were magneto styles with
9240-604: The growth of the tourism industry has encouraged development of facilities. In the early 1950s, Dawson was linked by road to Alaska, and in fall 1955, with Whitehorse along a road that now forms part of the Klondike Highway . In 1978, another kind of buried treasure was discovered with the Dawson Film Find when a construction excavation inadvertently uncovered a forgotten collection of more than 500 discarded films on highly flammable nitrate film stock from
9360-515: The halfway mark for the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. Mushers entered in the event have a mandatory 36-hour layover in Dawson City while getting their rest and preparing for the second half of the world's toughest sled dog race. Dawson City also hosts a softball tournament which brings teams from Inuvik in late summer. Furthermore, a volleyball tournament is held annually at the end of October and
9480-499: The historic relations between the monarchy and the First Nations. Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902 when it met the criteria for "city" status under the municipal act of that time. It retained the incorporation even as the population plummeted. When a new municipal act was adopted in the 1980s, Dawson met the criteria of "town", and was incorporated as such although with a special provision to allow it to continue to use
9600-408: The landscape, altering the locations of rivers and creeks and leaving tailing piles in their wake. A network of canals and dams were built to the north to produce hydroelectric power for the dredges. The dredges shut down for the winter, but one built for "Klondike Joe Boyle" was designed to operate year-round, and Boyle had it operate all through one winter. That dredge ( Dredge No. 4 ) is open as
9720-709: The last Rurax remained in service in Swift River until 1987. The three local independent companies in the Northwest Territories were connected to the CNT long-distance network by 1961 and additional locations in 1962, as CNT extended its telephone service mandate into the vast territort (by then, Bell Canada was operating in Frobisher Bay , in the east). In July 1961, CNT purchased the Hay River Telephone Company; on 31 December 1963, CNT purchased
9840-521: The late 1890s, and the Swedish market seemed to be reaching saturation, Ericsson expanded into foreign markets through a number of agents. The UK ( Ericsson Telephones Ltd. ) and Russia were early markets, where factories were later established to improve the chances of gaining local contracts and augment the output of the Swedish factory. In the UK, the National Telephone Company was a major customer; by 1897 sold 28% of its output in
9960-507: The local hydroelectric power plant for the gold dredges was shut down in 1966, YEC provided electrical power from local diesel generators . In 2004 YEC connected Dawson to its grid system. Since then the diesel generators function as a backup to the grid. Gold mining started in 1896 with the Bonanza (Rabbit) Creek discovery by George Carmack , Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim Mason (Keish) . The area's creeks were quickly staked and most of
10080-437: The next year, and 11,000 more in 2003. A new rights issue raised SEK 30 billion to keep the company afloat. The company had survived as mobile Internet started growing. With record profits, it was in better shape than many of its competitors. The emergence of full mobile Internet began a period of growth for the global telecom industry, including Ericsson. After the launch of 3G services in 2003, people started to access
10200-450: The north during the four years starting in 2001. In August 2009, Northwestel completed the last leg of fibre from Whitehorse to the south. Until this time, a 320 km (200 mi) long section between Fort Nelson, BC, and Mould Creek (near Liard Hot Springs), telecommunications passing through the area were carried over microwave radio. The completion of the fibre link in this area also will allow Northwestel to provide internet service to
10320-408: The north in 1923, prior to World War II. Their function was to enable the relay of telegraphic messages between them, as well as to and from the wired CN and CP telegraph networks in the south. From 1959 to March 1960, the stations were handed off to the federal Department of Transport. By 1972, they had become redundant to the fully-developed CNT local and long-distance telephone service, with access to
10440-553: The northern long-distance infrastructure, a long-term government contract was required to make the cost affordable. In this case, it was the US military 's need for a reliable link to its Alaska radar stations. The CNT link joined Alascom microwave facilities with Alberta Government Telephones (now Telus ) microwave facilities. Other US Department of Defense contracts with CNT resulted in tropospheric scatterwave facilities being installed to link up Distant Early Warning Line sites along
10560-425: The population with Indigenous Canadians accounting for 31.4% of the population and East Asian Canadians accounting for 3.0% of the population. Today, Dawson City's main industries are tourism and gold mining . Electricity is provided by Yukon Energy Corporation (YEC). Most of the grid power is hydroelectric power through the north-south grid from dams near Mayo , Whitehorse and Aishihik Lake . After
10680-662: The process by appealing to the CRTC; service was installed at the end of 2005, delayed as the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo demanded ongoing access payments for installing the telephone lines, initially at a rate far in excess of the revenue that would be generated by a very small number of customers. The 2003 order had the effect of eliminating an anomaly - Northwestel already had some customers in Alberta adjacent to Fort Smith, though not as far from Fort Smith as Fort Fitzgerald. In 2012 Northwestel complied with
10800-473: The region in 1887. It served as Yukon's capital from the territory's founding in 1898 until 1952, when the seat was moved to Whitehorse . Dawson City was the centre of the Klondike Gold Rush . It began in 1896 and changed the First Nations camp into a thriving city of 16,000–17,000 by 1898. By 1899, the gold rush had ended and the town's population plummeted as all but 8,000 people left. When Dawson
10920-1119: The sale of its media businesses. The Red Bee Media business was kept in-house as an independent subsidiary company, as no suitable buyer was found, but a 51% stake of the remainder of the Media Solution division was sold to private equity firm One Equity Partners, the new company being named MediaKind. The transaction was completed on 31 January 2019. In February 2018, Ericsson acquired the location-based mobile data management platform Placecast. Ericsson has since integrated Placecast's platform and capabilities with its programmatic mobile ad subsidiary, Emodo . In May 2018, SoftBank partnered with Ericsson to trial new radio technology. In September 2020, Ericsson acquired US-based carrier equipment manufacturer Cradlepoint for $ 1.1 billion. In November 2021, Ericsson announced it had reached an agreement to acquire Vonage for $ 6.2 billion. The acquisition completed in July 2022. In January 2024, Ericson and MTN Group announced expansion of their partnership to boost their mobile financial services on Africa market, as
11040-491: The sixth-largest semiconductor supplier and a subsidiary of Siemens ) bought Ericsson's microelectronics unit for $ 400 million. Ericsson was an official backer in the 2005 launch of the .mobi top-level domain created specifically for the mobile internet . Co-operation with Hewlett-Packard did not end with EHPT ; in 2003 Ericsson outsourced its IT to HP, which included Managed Services, Help Desk Support, Data Center Operations, and HP Utility Data Center. The contract
11160-407: The spring of 1947 with a buy-in of $ 50 per share and has its own colourful history. To obtain the franchise, it had to have 100 telephones operating by December 31 at midnight, but by early December, only 15 had been connected. They rushed by putting five or six phones in some homes. The inspector attempted to call 100 numbers and received 100 answers although only a quarter functioned properly. Service
11280-601: The system in High Level, Alberta , was also purchased and is to be upgraded for digital cable and internet . In September 2007, Northwestel Cable took ownership of the WHTV Cablevision system in Whitehorse, and again, conducted upgrades. Northwestel introduced a form of cellular telephony in 1987 with the Aurora (Automated Roving Radio) system (400 MHz band) developed by Novatel and widely used in Alberta. It
11400-530: The television technology division of Norwegian company Tandberg . == In 2009, Ericsson bought the CDMA2000 and LTE business of Nortel 's carrier networks division for US$ 1.18 billion; Bizitek, a Turkish business support systems integrator; the Estonian manufacturing operations of electronic manufacturing company Elcoteq ; and completed its acquisition of LHS. Acquisitions in 2010 included assets from
11520-399: The thousands who arrived in the spring of 1898 for the Klondike Gold Rush found that there was very little opportunity to benefit directly from gold mining. Many instead became entrepreneurs to provide services to miners. Starting approximately 10 years later, large gold dredges began an industrial mining operation, scooping huge amounts of gold out of the creeks, and completely reworking
11640-448: The town council, as a result of the town going bankrupt. The territorial government accepted a large portion of the responsibility for this situation in March 2006, writing off $ 3.43 million of the debt and leaving the town with $ 1.5 million still to pay off. Elections were set for June 15, 2006. John Steins, a local artist and one of the leaders of the movement to restore democracy to Dawson, was acclaimed as mayor, while 13 residents ran for
11760-469: The wires. A Northwestel spokesperson explained in a letter to the editor that it could not knowingly continue to provide a service that it was not licensed to provide. The company's corporate headquarters were transferred from Edmonton to Whitehorse in 1980. Operations have been diversified, with Yellowknife being another prime centre for the company. (The years in which Hay River Tel. Co., Fort Smith Tel. Co., and Performance Communications were established
11880-464: The word "City", partially for historical reasons and partially to distinguish it from Dawson Creek , a small city in northeastern British Columbia . Dawson Creek is also named in honour of George M. Dawson. This led the territorial government to post the following signs at the boundaries of the town: "Welcome to the Town of the City of Dawson". As of the 2001 Municipal Act , the town's official legal name
12000-472: The world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer, signed a $ 1.5 billion deal to supply flash memory to Ericsson over the next three years. The short-lived partnership, called Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture, owned 70/30 percent by Ericsson and Microsoft respectively, ended in October 2001 when Ericsson announced it would absorb the former joint venture and adopt a licensing agreement with Microsoft instead. The same month, Ericsson and Sony announced
12120-499: The world. Ericsson's workforce worldwide fell during 2001 from 107,000 to 85,000. In September 2001, Ericsson purchased the remaining shares in EHPT from Hewlett-Packard . Founded in 1993, Ericsson Hewlett Packard Telecom (EHPT) was a joint venture made up of 60% Ericsson interests and 40% Hewlett-Packard interests. In 2002, ICT investor losses topped $ 2 trillion and share prices fell by 95% until August that year. More than half
12240-588: Was Tr'ochëk , a fishing camp at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River , now a National Historic Site of Canada , just across the Klondike River from modern Dawson City. This site was also an important summer gathering spot and a base for moose -hunting on the Klondike Valley. The current settlement was founded by Joseph Ladue and named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson , who had explored and mapped
12360-468: Was a joint venture with Sony that merged the previous mobile telephone operations of both companies. It manufactured mobile telephones, accessories and personal computer (PC) cards. Sony Ericsson was responsible for product design and development, marketing, sales, distribution and customer services. On 16 February 2012, Sony announced it had completed the full acquisition of Sony Ericsson, after which it changed name to Sony Mobile Communications, and nearly
12480-519: Was able to trace its service back to 1901. The Mayo Utilities Company was established in 1920 and provided telephone, electricity and water in Mayo and Elsa / Keno City , as well as Carmacks . It was sold in 1942, and the owner sold off the electric and water operations and joined it with the Whitehorse company to form the Yukon Telephone Company. The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals established long-distance shortwave telegraphic communications stations in
12600-1228: Was announced that Ericsson and Intel are pooling R&D excellence to create high-performing Cloud RAN solutions. The organisations have pooled to launch a tech hub in California, USA. The hub focuses on the benefits that Ericsson Cloud RAN and Intel technology can bring to: improving energy efficiency and network performance, reducing time to market, and monetizing new business opportunities such as enterprise applications. Ericsson's business includes technology research, development, network systems and software development, and running operations for telecom service providers. and software Ericsson offers end-to-end services for all major mobile communication standards, and has three main business units. Business Area Networks, previously called Business Unit Networks, develop network infrastructure for communication needs over mobile and fixed connections . Its products include radio base stations, radio network controllers , mobile switching centers and service application nodes . Operators use Ericsson products to migrate from 2G to 3G and, most recently, to 4G networks. The company's network division has been described as
12720-480: Was available in limited areas, and although intended to replace most of the VHF manual mobile telephone service, the widespread deployment of cellular service (800 MHz band) across southern Canada rendered the Aurora system obsolete, despite Aurora's superior geographic reach. The Aurora system was manufacturer discontinued, and, not being Y2K compatible , was discontinued late in 1999. 800 MHz cellular technology
12840-471: Was buying the broadcast-services division of Technicolor , a media broadcast technology company. In April 2012 Ericsson completed the acquisition of BelAir Networks a strong Wi-Fi network technology company. On 3 May 2013, Ericsson announced it would divest its power cable operations to Danish company NKT Holding . On 1 July 2013, Ericsson announced it would acquire the media management company Red Bee Media , subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition
12960-577: Was completed on 9 May 2014. In September 2013, Ericsson completed its acquisition of Microsoft's Mediaroom business and televisions services, originally announced in April the same year. The acquisition makes Ericsson the largest provider of IPTV and multi-screen services in the world, by market share; it was renamed Ericsson Mediaroom . In September 2014, Ericsson acquired majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance. In October 2015, Ericsson completed
13080-561: Was evolved into a unit called Red Bee Media , which has been spun out into a joint venture. It deals with the playout of live and pre-recorded, commercial and public service television programmes, including presentation (continuity announcements), trailers , and ancillary access services such as closed-caption subtitles , audio description and in-vision sign language interpreters. Its media management services consist of Managed Media Preparation and Managed Media Internet Delivery. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson)
13200-456: Was extended in 2008. In October 2005, Ericsson acquired the bulk of the troubled UK telecommunications manufacturer Marconi Company , including its brand name that dates back to the creation of the original Marconi Company by the "father of radio" Guglielmo Marconi . In September 2006, Ericsson sold the greater part of its defense business Ericsson Microwave Systems , which mainly produced sensor and radar systems, to Saab AB , which renamed
13320-779: Was in a joint venture with the Dakwakada Development Corporation (an arm of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations ) in Latitude Wireless, offering cellular service in parts of the Territories. Roaming was available between the Latitude and Bell Mobility networks. Latitude Wireless was merged with Bell Mobility in 2013. Dawson City Dawson City , officially the City of Dawson ,
13440-611: Was incorporated as a city in 1902, the population was under 5,000. St. Paul's Anglican Church , also built that same year, is a National Historic Site. The downtown was devastated by fire in November 1897 (started when dance hall girl Dolly Mitchell threw a lamp at another girl in an argument), 1899 (started in the Bodega Saloon), 1900 (started at the Monte Carlo Theatre) and flooding in 1925, 1944, 1966, 1969 and 1979. The population dropped after World War II when
13560-410: Was introduced in 1993, though with far less availability than Aurora in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The cellular operations were, soon after, spun off as Northwestel Mobility Inc. (NMI Mobility). In 2003, NMI Mobility was sold to Bell Mobility , leaving Northwestel as strictly landline and VHF manual mobile provider. However, it appears to have been since re-acquired by Northwestel. Northwestel
13680-561: Was later purchased by NewTel Enterprises and merged with Newfoundland Telephone in late 1988. Northwestel was sold to Bell Canada Enterprises (parent of Bell Canada) on December 1, 1988. Since then, Northwestel has become a direct subsidiary of Bell Canada , although still regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) separately from Bell Canada, with its own method of regulation until 2007: rate of return. Northwestel, as of 2007,
13800-532: Was problematic, with many unhappy customers, and up to ten people were partied on a line. By 1958, the Yellowknife company's service had improved, with 700 phones hooked up. During the 1950s, one of the major shareholders in Yellowknife, Jim Mason, learned that second-hand cables were for sale from a company in Stewart, British Columbia . The owner had died and his brother, the executor, did not know much about
13920-483: Was purchased by CN Telegraph (CNT) from Northern Light Power and Coal Company of England in 1962, and a dial telephone system was installed later in the 1960s to replace the 19th-century magneto board. Robert W. Service was one of the few Dawson residents who could afford telephone service during his residence in Dawson prior to World War I . At least one other independent company was established in Whitehorse and
14040-621: Was the entire Yukon , plus parts of northern British Columbia , and the western portion of the Northwest Territories , including the Kitikmeot communities of Pelly Bay (now Kugaaruk ), Spence Bay ( Taloyoak ) and Gjoa Haven . On July 1, 1992, the service territory of Bell Canada in the NWT was purchased by Northwestel, bringing the entire north under a single company. Though technically regarded as an "independent company" through
14160-668: Was turned over on April 1, 1946, to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). In 1948, the RCAF turned it over to the federal Department of Transport (DOT), which contracted the operation to Canadian National Telegraphs (CNT). Other independent companies were established in Yellowknife in 1947 and Fort Smith and Hay River in the late 1950s. All of the systems were purchased by CNT between 1961 and 1964. The independent Yellowknife Telephone Company began to be formed in
14280-739: Was ubiquitous by the end of the 1960s wherever a local exchange was established. Microwave installations similar to the Alaska Highway route and others in southern Canada replaced outdated or overcrowded pole-line systems on routes paralleling the Yukon's Klondike Highway , and highways in the Northwest Territories, as well as a mammoth pole-line along the Mackenzie River to Inuvik that was only in service from 1968 to 1973. Satellite relays replaced Tropospheric scatterwave systems to DEW-line communities such as Cambridge Bay and Spence Bay, improving signal quality immensely. Manual Mobile Telephone Service , using VHF frequencies, introduced by
14400-799: Was unable to subscribe enough customers to make systems viable except in Norman Wells ; the company also in 1995 purchased the Mackenzie Media cable system in Yellowknife, the Performance Communications Corp. system in Watson Lake and the Pangnirtung cable TV system. In 2005, Northwestel Cable purchased the Fort Nelson, British Columbia , system and upgraded it for digital and internet. In August 2006,
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