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OpenMedia.ca: Reddit Firestorm: The future isn’t friendly for Canadian wireless customers
“Please stop buying your phones on contract. Rogers, Bell and Telus have got us over a barrel in this country and aside from government intervention, the only way we are able to turn the tables is to reclaim the ability to switch carriers easily.” This is how today’s top post
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: New report: Canada falling further behind global counterparts on Internet access
This week, experts at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) – the body that oversees Canada’s .ca domain – released their 2014 Factbook, which chronicles Canada’s advancement on Internet issues over the past year. The Factbook investigates how well-positioned Canadians are in the areas of access, cost, and usage. read
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Wireless price-hikes! OK who’s running the show here: Big Telecom or the government?
In February, Industry Minister James Moore announced that the government has heard our voices, and promised that everyday Canadians would soon experience lower costs and greater choice in our broken mobile phone and Internet market. In March, less than a month later, Canada’s Big Telecom cartel jacks up prices across
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Heartfelt thanks from us to you
We want to take a moment just to thank you and recognize all the progress our OpenMedia community has made recently. Together we’ve delivered petitions, wrote letters to local newspapers, spread the word to our family and friends, and made our crowd-sourced rules into laws. We’d especially like to thank
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: 24 hours left to let decision-makers know where you stand
Time and time again, we’ve seen Canada’s pro-Internet community band together to demand that decision-makers move us toward open and affordable Internet access in Canada – not toward more control for Big Telecom. And today we find ourselves at another crucial juncture in this ongoing fight. We cannot let the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Internet you know is about to look a whole lot different. And you might not like what you see.
Back in January, three judges in Washington, D.C.’s US Court of Appeals made a game-changing legal decision in the case of Verizon v. FCC, that would allow giant telecom conglomerates to block or slow down any content they want on their networks. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: An Internet User’s Guide to the CRTC’s "Choicebook"
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Ben Klass complaint against Bell prompts CRTC to review mobile Internet rules
Several months ago, we let you know that Manitoba resident and OpenMedia community member Ben Klass had filed a complaint with Canada’s telecom policymaker, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Ben’s complaint claimed that telecom giant Bell was unfairly stifling certain types of mobile content over their wireless networks
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Day We Fight Back
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: There’s a plan to lower your cable bill and give you greater choice
Let’s be honest: in the face of an increasing number of innovative online digital services such as Netflix, traditional TV really has to step it up. And, for a long time now, it’s been clear that the telecom giants weren’t going to do it on their own.[1] But, thanks to
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: A new development and it’s not good
Canada’s mobile phone and Internet market is officially on life support. Just days ago, the last remaining national cell phone provider outside the Big Three’s control – Wind Mobile – removed themselves from a key auction of resources crucial to their future.1 This is a massive threat to affordable Internet
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Building a Connected Canada
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: BREAKING: Leaked documents reveal Canadian government being pressured by US to accept extreme Internet censorship proposals in the TPP
sayno-og_share.png Proposed secret transnational Internet censorship courts would override Canadian law and restrict freedom of expression online. November 13, 2013 – This morning WikiLeaks released secret documents that have confirmed an extreme Internet censorship plan is being pushed behind closed doors as part of the International Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Big Telecom is officially taking Canada to court
We have just received word that the federal Court of Appeal has officially granted Big Telecom permission to take Canada to court over new customer-friendly rules laid out in June by the CRTC. This means that Canada’s three Big Telecom giants will appear before one of our highest courts and
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: We are taking your voice to decision makers
On July 24, 2013, the Our Fair Deal Coalition launched its Internet Voice tool at OpenMedia.org/DigitalFuture, and asked citizens in countries affected by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to speak out and share their vision for what a fair digital future should look like. In contrast to the TPP’s closed door
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Say No to Internet Censorship
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Minister Moore: Rein in Big Telecom
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Amazing Big Telecom! Able to flip-flop in a single newspaper!
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Big Telecom flip-flopping on Canadian policy! In response to Telus taking the government to court to fight rules that would help independent cell phone companies access crucial resources, telecom expert Michael Geist has come out with a new piece revealing the big telecom
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