sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message look communications inc. type public nex lok.h industry telecommunications founded 1997 headquarters milton ontario key people gerald mcgoey vice chairman and ceo of look products cable television high speed internet web hosting revenue 30 million cad 2006 slogan at look it s simple website www.look.ca look communications nex lok.h is a telecommunication company that has been in liquidation since november 2009 . it was a digital wireless cable internet service and web hosting provider . it was once linked to former crown corporation teleglobe and chinese isp inter pacific online . founded in 1997 look s head office was in milton ontario though most of its departments and employees were based in its montreal office . it was listed on the tsx venture exchange under the symbols lok and lok.a . look had approximately 60 000 television customers at its peak . contents 1 history 1.1 sale and liquidation 2 service offered 3 external links history edit look tv was founded in august 1997 as digital wireless cable provider based in etobicoke ontario . it started providing television service in 1997 for southern ontario and 1998 for quebec and eastern ontario . in 1999 look tv and internet direct canadian isp operating in b.c. alberta manitoba ontario and quebec . merged to become look communications with look stockholders receiving 60 % of the combined entity and internet direct stockholders receiving the remaining 40 % . look communications filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001 . beginning in 2002 unique broadband system ubs acquired a stake in look . by the end of 2003 ubs owned 51 % of look s stock making look a subsidiary of ubs . at that time look moved its headquarters from oakville ontario to ubs s headquarters in milton . sale and liquidation edit despite re emerging from bankruptcy in 2002 look never regained profitability and continued losing millions of dollars for the years to come . on december 1 2008 look communications announced that it was selling off its assets . on may 14 2009 the ontario superior court of justice approved the sale to inukshuk wireless partnership . on november 15 2009 look s television customer base was acquired by bell canada which folded it into its bell tv division while the internet consumer base was absorbed by telnet communications . although look communications no longer has any customers and has terminated its employees the company still exists and is in the process of liquidating its remaining assets . service offered edit look provided its digital television and wireless internet services using a multichannel multipoint distribution system mmds technology operating with 90 mhz of capacity in the 2.5 ghz band the only company in canada with approximately 90 mhz of spectrum and a broadcast license for mobile video services in canada . . look had exclusive use of these frequencies since it received licenses from the canadian radio television and telecommunications commission crtc as a broadcast distribution undertaking . with this mmds technology television audio and data signals were received at look s headend and digitally transmitted via fibre optics links to broadcast sites . the signals were then broadcast over the air from one of several transmission towers or base stations to a receiving antenna at subscribers homes or businesses . external links edit official website v t e cable satellite and other specialty television providers in canada terrestrial and satellite satellite bell tv shaw direct telus satellite tv cable major1 bell cablevision for val d or qc cogeco ontario quebec eastlink atlantic northern ontario western canada look communications mts cable manitoba rogers cable ontario new brunswick source hamilton on shaw western canada northwestern ontario vid otron quebec minor access 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