While it may have been a banner year for Canada’s online community—as thousands joined together to battle for an open and affordable Internet—Big Telecom is working as hard as ever to stamp out the competition and increase its market share. We made progress in 2011, yes, but there’s still work
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OpenMedia.ca: Bridging the broadband gap: Canada needs to take cue from latest U.S. initiative
Recently, Canada’s online community was served up a vivid reminder about another challenge that’s facing our nation’s digital future, not from within this country’s borders though, but south of it. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Wind Mobile backer latest to take aim at Big Telecom’s grip
Unless the CRTC takes steps to ensure that Big Telecom can’t shut out the competition, upstart company Wind Mobile won’t be participating at the upcoming wireless Internet spectrum auction. That’s the word from Wind Mobile backer Naguib Sawiris, who in a recent interview with CBC’s The Lang & O’Leary Exchange,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Surveillance expert Chris Parsons dismantles "Lawful Access" phone book comparison
While thousands of Canadians voice their concerns about the Conservative government’s proposed online spying legislation, Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews attempts to dismiss our opposition, by comparing the program to a flip through the good old phonebook. ..Sounds innocent enough, no? Except for the fact that many telecommunications and
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