Author: David Christopher

Canada’s wireless market has taken another step backwards. Yesterday, telecom giant Telus announced it has bought out Public Mobile, a small independent carrier with 280,000 customers in Quebec and Ontario. This is bad news for long-suffering cell phone customers, and Canadians were quick to react. As @bladedandh asked on Twitter:

As we all know, Canada’s telecoms market is a mess – just three giant conglomerates control over 93% of the cell phone market, and this lack of choice means Canadians pay some of the highest prices in the industrialized world for horrible service. Canadians have been looking to Industry Minister

Good things happen when Canadians speak out! For months, tens of thousands of citizens from right across Canada have stood up to demand the government take action for authentic choice in our broken wireless market. Last Monday, over 35 of Canada’s leading innovators and entrepreneurs joined our growing movement. The

Have you heard about the challenges facing some customers of independent Internet Service Provider TekSavvy? TekSavvy, a leading independent service provider with a customer-base of 235,000 subscribers nationwide, rents network space from Big Telecom. According to TekSavvy, the fact that many of their customers are currently offline is not acceptable

Canada’s Big Three telecom giants are sounding increasingly desperate as their expensive ad campaign fails to connect with Canadians – and now it looks like they’re taking that desperation out on their employees. The Big Three have been spending millions on a flashy and misleading ad campaign that’s triggered widespread

You’ve likely heard by now about the massive and misleading advertising campaign being run by Canada’s Big Three telecom giants, as they desperately try to stave off the prospect of greater choice in Canada’s wireless market. Campaigns like this don’t come cheap – but Big Telecom has deep pockets after

Access to new affordable Canadian startup telecom providers is what OpenMedia.ca and its supporters have been pushing for for years – and it’s what Big Telecom is afraid of. That’s why Big Telecom is preventing independent service providers from accessing the digital roads they require to reach Canadians. Let’s not

According to reports, it looks like Industry Minister James Moore is standing behind his policy of reserving vital spectrum resources for new entrants to Canada’s wireless market, despite enormous pressure from Canada’s Big Three telecom conglomerates. Will Industry Minister James Moore feel the pressure from Big Telecom’s high-paid lobbyists –

The OECD have just released their 2013 Communications Outlook – a heavyweight independent report that offers a detailed examination of the state of telecommunications across the world’s leading 34 industrialized countries. The report confirms what pretty much everyone already knew – that Canadians do indeed pay some of the highest

Canada, you gave Big Telecom a chance to listen and provide better service – but they’re still up to their old tricks. Don’t you think it’s time to open up our networks for affordable indie options like other countries have? It’s time to Demand Choice at http://DemandChoice.ca Article by Daniel

Big Telecom is up to its old tricks again. They’ve invested some of their record profits into an expensive PR campaign, including misleading full page newspaper ads, in a clear effort to try to convince Canadians that cell phone service is not as bad as we know it is. Earlier