OpenMedia.ca is proud of the Green Party of Canada’s latest demonstration of support for the Stop Online Spying campaign. Comparing the “Lawful Access” legislation to a CCTV camera in the privacy of the home, the Green Party is joining OpenMedia.ca in…
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OpenMedia.ca: Stop Online Spying goes viral
The government has failed to inform Canadians about the privacy and data security implications of this scheme, but Canadians are stepping up to the plate. Share these important citizen-made videos with everyone you know, then sign the petition at http:…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The SOS Coalition welcomes the Canadian Federation of Students
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) has joined the Stop Online Spying Coalition. The CFS unites the collective interests of Canadian college and university students, and represents them before the federal and provincial government.
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OpenMedia.ca: The SOS Coalition welcomes the Canadian Federation of Students
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) has joined the Stop Online Spying Coalition. The CFS unites the collective interests of Canadian college and university students, and represents them before the federal and provincial government.
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OpenMedia.ca: Looking through a funhouse mirror: The CRTC releases its Communications Monitoring Report
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Written by Stefanie Lee and Carla Cristoffanini
The CRTC recently released its annual Communications Monitoring Report, which shows that numbers of broadband Internet and wireless service subscribers in Canada a…
OpenMedia.ca: Edmonton Journal: Internet providers slow speeds, researcher says
By Jason Magder for Edmonton Journal
Canadian Internet providers have purposely or accidentally slowed down the speeds of its customers dozens of times in the last two years, and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has done …
OpenMedia.ca: iPolitics: Competing views on internet billing clash at CRTC
By Elizabeth Thompson for iPolitics
Conflicting views over how Canadians should pay for internet usage clashed before the CRTC Monday, as the commission heard a new round of arguments over how small internet service providers should be billed for the b…
OpenMedia.ca: Telemanagement: CRTC begins usage-based billing hearings
By Anthony Gabryluk for Telemanagement
Consumer advocates have told the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that big telecommunications companies should address the issue of internet congestion by investing more in their …
OpenMedia.ca: ARS: Metered billing: it’s a lack of competition, not congestion
By Matthew Lasar for ARS Technica
It looks like Canada’s telecom regulators are showing some new-found skepticism about metered or “usage-based” billing (UBB). The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has been holding hear…
OpenMedia.ca: Solomon: CRTC starts Internet wholesale pricing hearing
By Howard Solomon for itWorldCanada
The telecom regulator begins a hearing to hone its unpopular decision on usage-based billing and set wholesale pricing for independent Internet providers so they can offer high-speed access equal to big carriers.
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OpenMedia.ca: Marlow: BCE put on hot seat at hearing on Web pricing
By Iain Marlow for Globe and Mail
The country’s telecom regulator has cast doubt on BCE Inc.’s (BCE-T38.240.491.30%)argument that fast-growing Web traffic requires new usage-based pricing measures, setting the tone for regulatory hearings that will…
OpenMedia.ca: Mediacaster: CRTC Hearings on Internet Pricing Begin in Ottawa
From Media Caster
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s public hearing into wholesale high-speed Internet access services began in Ottawa today.
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OpenMedia.ca: Circle ID: Hot Legal Action in Canada!
By Neil Schwartzman for Circle ID
The best part is … this isn’t one of those ‘now that I’ve got your attention’ tricks, like one of those old “free beer” posters; there really is a ton of stuff happening above the 49th parallel this summer.
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OpenMedia.ca: Toronto Sun: CRTC drills BCE on UBB
By Stefania Moretti for Toronto Sun
Regulators drilled BCE Inc. executives with questions Monday ahead of a decision on wholesale usage-based billing (UBB) amid criticism the whole process is a waste of time because it ignores the wider problem of reta…
OpenMedia.ca: 570 News: Internet usage-based billing hearings
From 570 News
The CRTC is holding hearings this week on internet usage-based billing, after the federal government forced the agency to go back to the drawing board on the issue.
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OpenMedia.ca: Marlow: Groups, regulators square off at CRTC hearings
By Iain Marlow for Globe and Mail
The second day of crucial CRTC hearings into the future of Internet pricing in Canada continued on Tuesday in Gatineau, Que., with a lively and at-times adversarial back-and-forth between two groups and the assembled r…
OpenMedia.ca: CBC: ‘Big telecom’ internet investment too low, consumer groups say
From CBC
Big telecommunications companies should tackle internet congestion by investing more in their networks, which would make usage-based billing unnecessary, consumer advocates say.
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OpenMedia.ca: Fierce Telecom: Canada’s CRTC to discuss usage based billing, broadband pricing
By Sean Buckley for Fierce Telecom
Canada’s telecom regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), will hold discussions with incumbents, competitive service providers and industry groups on usage based billing (UBB)…
OpenMedia.ca: Global: CRTC scrutinizes internet pricing
By Rebecca Lindell for Global
GATINEAU, Que. – Bell Canada is asking Canada’s federal telecommunications regulator to adopt a new usage-based billing plan in a process set to change the way Canadians pay for the internet.
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