Industry Canada’s Communications Research Centre (CRC) and Japan’s Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) have agreed to collaborate on joint research projects related to information communications technologies. Under the MOU — the second such agreement between CRC and CRL — the two organizations will work together on terrestrial wireless, satellite communications, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, multimedia services, next-generation networks and other wireless and network technologies. The two research centres previously worked together on the first demonstration of tele-medicine using high definition television technology. CRC and CRL also hold a joint patent for a low-cost technique to generate high-frequency signals for new multimedia wireless communications systems….