Author: Andrew Currie

Your news links for today: Competition Bureau taking more consumer-friendly stance – CBC Long-awaited digital strategy close to release, says industry minister – 680News Fast broadband now considered vital by increasing numbers of homebuyers – The Guardian In battle for Western Canada, Shaw bets big on WiFi – Globe and

Your news links for today: Telus pulls out of key wireless industry lobby group – Globe and Mail “Telus CCO Josh Blair says they’ll continue to partner with CWTA on some issues but on efforts w/ gov’t, will take their own unique approach” – @christinedobby on Twitter Privacy or national

Your news links for today: “The transfer of the spectrum licences from Public Mobile to TELUS… is approved.” – Industry Canada Supervising Surveillance: Oversight and the Communications Security Establishment Canada – Cyber Dialogue Western spy agencies build ‘cyber magicians’ to manipulate online discourse – RT News UK spy agency intercepted

Your news links for today: Copyright Board of Canada on Copying a Few Pages: It’s Insubstantial and Not Compensable | Michael Geist Voltage meets resistance from Federal Court: new safeguards imposed on disclosure order to combat copyright trolling | Canadian Communications Law Take That Copyright Trolls! Canadian Copyright After Voltage

Your news links for today: Court Orders $500,000 Administrative Monetary Penalty in Rogers-Chatr Matter | Competition Bureau of Canada Ontario court fines Rogers $500,000 over Chatr ads | CBC Lament of a frugal wireless subscriber | WordsByNowak CRTC takes to Twitter to #TalkTV | Telecom Trends A Tale of Two

Your news links for today: Netflix to Pay Comcast for Smoother Streaming | Wall Street Journal Comcast’s deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete | Washington Post The Netflix-Comcast agreement isn’t a network neutrality violation, but it is a problem | Gigaom Why Copyright Trolling in Canada Doesn’t Pay: Assessing

Your news links for today: Illegal downloaders in federal court’s crosshairs (Vancouver Sun) Canadian Court Slaps Restrictions on Copyright Trolling (TorrentFreak) Downloading Decision: Federal Court Establishes New Safeguards on Disclosures in File Sharing Suits (Michael Geist) Still unclear on 700MHz outcomes. (paulgoodrick.com) Videotron has at least 6 wireless options (WordsByNowak)

Your news links for today: Government raises $5.27 billion from wireless auction, Quebecor buys into Ontario, Alberta and BC (Mobile Syrup) Frenzied auction raises stakes in Canada’s wireless war (Globe and Mail) Spectrum Auction Fuels Major Revenues, Some Changes on Wireless Landscape (Mediacaster) It Only Takes One: Will the Spectrum

Your news links for today: CRTC Launches Lopsided Talk TV Consult: Raises Prospect of Net Regulation & Net Neutrality Violation (Michael Geist) Slow as maple syrup: Canada ranks 54th in global Internet upload speeds (reddit discussion of yesterday’s link) Canada’s 700Mhz spectrum auction is over, results tomorrow (Mobile Syrup) “Acquired

Your news links for today: Internet Upload Speeds: Canada Beats Mexico, But Behind Kenya (Huffington Post) Slow as maple syrup: Canada ranks 54th in global Internet upload speeds (Yahoo! News) Here we go again: Telus once again increasing High Speed Internet rates (reddit) Industry Minister now says the marketplace will

Your news links for today: Rogers deputy chairman warns against dropping foreign investment restrictions (Globe and Mail) Rogers’ Changing Tune on Fully Opening Canadian Wireless to Foreign Investment (Michael Geist) Music Canada: Block Websites That Pirate Music, Crack Down On Google (Huffington Post) Canada, trade and intellectual property (CBA) Worried

Your news links for today: Telecom firms being asked what data they are giving to police, intelligence agencies (Globe and Mail) Reveal extent of government data surveillance, campaign asks telecom companies (Ottawa Citizen) Sochi 2014: Cyber-surveillance network heightens privacy fears (Toronto Star) Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and

Your news links for today: Towards Transparency in Canadian Telecommunications (The Citizen Lab) Here We Go Again: Canadian Recording Industry Calls on Government To Regulate the Internet (Michael Geist) Canadians first in world to get Google’s new service for measuring Internet speeds (reddit) You Are Being Watched. Now What? (The

Your news links for today: There is an iPod tax after all (Macleans) Update: CBSA ATIPs on the iPod Tax (Mike Moffat) Canadian Regulators Place Google’s Business Model Under Microscope (Michael Geist) Net Neutrality (CBC Spark) App Neutrality Should Be Part of the Net Neutrality Discussion (Huffington Post) Let’s Try

Your news links for today: The strange connection between the NSA and an Ontario tech firm (Globe and Mail) Harper must address online surveillance in Canada, says advocacy group (Global News) Privacy Advocates Sound Off on Obama’s Proposed NSA Reforms (Mashable) Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained (EFF)

Your news links for today: WIND pulls out of spectrum auction, TELUS raises rates (Mobile Syrup) Why Canadian mobile users should care about the spectrum auction (Yahoo Finance Canada) Canada’s Spy Watchdogs Are Lobbyists, and That’s a Problem (The Tyee) The Shameful Canadian Silence on Surveillance (Michael Geist) NSA collects

Your news links for today: Why the Justice Ministers’ Report Fails To Make the Case for Bill C-13’s Lawful Access Provisions (Michael Geist) Michael Geist and Steve Anderson on Canada’s Wireless Woes (YouTube) Guess Who Owns The Patent to RSA’s Backdoor Algorithm? Blackberry (Digital Dao) Scorecard: Will Obama Hit the

Your news links for today: ISPs Push For Two-Tier Internet Based on Data Caps (Michael Geist) Harper and wireless: Is it Lost or Breaking Bad? (WordsByNowak) Videotron reportedly signs NDA with Mobilicity, may be expanding outside Quebec (Mobile Syrup) Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – Environment Consolidated Text (Wikileaks) If

Your news links for today: Wind Mobile pulls out of wireless auction (Globe and Mail) With Wind done, so are Ottawa’s wireless hopes (WordsByNowak) Time for a New Plan: With Government’s Wireless Strategy in Tatters, Regulation May Be Only Option (Michael Geist) Welcome Back to the Dark Ages (Howard Forums)

Your news links for today: What Minister Moore Says About Your Sky-High Cell Phone Bills (Huffington Post) Explain Like I’m Five: Wireless Spectrum in Canada (Howard Forums) Canadian 700 MHz Auction Background/Timeline (Canadian Spectrum Policy Research) Is C-13 Needed?: How Canadian Law Already Features Extensive Rules to Combat Cyberbullying (Michael