Despite high hopes, Industry Minister Moore’s Digital Strategy was a huge let-down. It looks like Canada will continue falling behind. Canadians deserve so much more – help us demand better at https://openmedia.ca/endowment Article by Brian Jackson for Itbusiness.ca It was a long time in the making, and it wasn’t worth
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OpenMedia.ca: Top 5 things you need to know about the government’s long-awaited digital economy strategy
We were starting to worry this day would never come. But, lo and behold, here it is: the government has finally announced its long-awaited digital economy strategy, Digital Canada 150. So, what’s the good news? While there are a few positive measures in the strategy, they amount to little more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Government’s digital strategy leaves Canada stuck in the slow lane – fails to tackle stark digital divide and national digital deficit
OpenMedia_Sidebar_Image.png Canadians deserve so much more than just warmed-up leftovers from previous government announcements: new strategy means Canada will likely fall even further behind its global counterparts on Internet affordability, access, and speed April 4, 2014 – The government’s long-awaited new digital strategy announced this morning will disappoint Canadians who
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: With Canada plummeting in Internet world rankings, Canadians tell Minister Moore not to squander our $5.2bn Digital Endowment
DigitalEndowment_403x403_250314.png Government should invest digital windfall from sale of public spectrum assets into tackling Canada’s national digital deficit and growing digital divide March 26, 2014 – Canada has a unique opportunity to tackle its growing digital divide – but the government must take action to ensure this chance isn’t squandered.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC: Canadian upload speeds among worst in industrialized world
Canada is falling further and further behind our global counterparts when it comes to high-speed Internet. Tell decision-makers to drop the Big Telecom deadweight that’s holding our country back: https://openmedia.ca/deadweight Article by Peter Nowak for CBC News In a busy week, Jeremy Phan might do 10 photo shoots for various
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: Federal budget investment in rural broadband welcome but it must not be used to entrench Big Telecom’s poor service
eblast_indieISP_sidebar.png Community-based OpenMedia.ca says $2bn investment and open access requirements needed to ensure rural Canadians have quality Internet service independent of the high costs and slow speeds offered by Canada’s Big Telecom giants FEBRUARY 11, 2014 – Today’s announcement of $305m over 5 years in new government investment to improve
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: A pro-Internet Top 10 to do list for James Moore
Ensuring Canada has an accessible, affordable, surveillance-free, and open Internet is essential for our economy, culture, and global competitiveness. We now have a new, heavyweight Industry Minister in James Moore – someone with the power and influence to take on Canada’s entrenched Big Telecom giants. Expectations for Minister Moore are
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: These ideas = success
We are constantly amazed, but never surprised, at what the pro-Internet community can accomplish when we work together. With a couple clicks and a few keystrokes, we can share our thoughts across the world at 300,000 km/second. That’s pretty incredible when you step back and think about it. The Internet
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: How we’re doing as we demand choice in our cell phone market
You wouldn’t believe just how well things are going with the campaign to demand more choice in Canada’s cell phone market. From its humble beginning as a letter-writing campaign asking the CRTC to develop national rules to protect cell phone users, the Demand Choice campaign is hitting a stride, and
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your cell phone stories are making decision-makers sit up and take action
After reading your stories in our cell phone report, Ontario is now looking to put forward cell phone rules that include making cancellation easy and straightforward. Thanks to your efforts, we’re seeing decision-makers take notice of Canadians’ concerns and moving towards pro-citizen actions. Article by Christine Dobby for The Financial
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: City of Vancouver releases digital strategy while Industry Canada quietly continues to delay
As Canadians wait with increasingly less patience for Industry Canada’s long-promised digital strategy, it appears that one city is taking matters into its own hands. From their mountainous British Columbia home, councillors of the City of Vancouver have crafted a plan that includes providing public wi-fi, sponsoring digital literacy programs,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: City of Vancouver releases digital strategy, while Industry Canada quietly continues to delay
115.jpg OpenMedia.ca lauds Vancouver plan, stating that a strategy is crucial for a vibrant digital future April 16, 2013 – As Canadians wait with increasingly less patience for Industry Canada’s long-promised digital strategy, it appears that one city is taking matters into its own hands. From their mountainous British Columbia
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Woah! Take a look at these Internet speeds.
Woah! In Japan, some very fast Internet speeds (at 2Gbps download, 1Gbps upload) were just introduced. These speeds are so much faster than in Canada that our Internet operates at a snail’s pace in comparison. The Internet has become an integral part of our everyday communications, and Canadians deserve a
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Why Your High Cell Phone Bills Have Nothing To Do With The Size of Canada
Canada’s broken cell phone market has come under a lot of public scrutiny of late, with the CRTC trying to establish a set of minimum standards for wireless providers; the release of OpenMedia.ca’s citizen-powered report, Time For An Upgrade, which demonstrated the systematic mistreatment that cell phone users suffer due
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadians demand choice in their local communities
Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word about Canadians’ real experiences in our broken cell phone market and our citizen-powered action plan to fix it. Check out this letter from Christopher Anderson in North Shore News as he shows how Canadians really feel about our cell phone
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Progress In Canada’s High Internet Pricing — Indie ISPs lowering rates
Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of Canadians, it looks like independent ISPs like Teksavvy, Distributel, Acanac, and Start are finally gaining the ability to do what Canadians need them to do: provide independent affordable Internet services, and in so doing provide a check on Big Telecom price-gouging. For example,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: How Telus lost its credibility.
Co-authored by Catherine Hart Canadians and even the CRTC[1] know our cell phone market is broken. Canadians pay some of the highest prices for some of the worst service in the industrialized world, and, as we showed in our recent report,[2] we’ve been subjected to systemic mistreatment by the Big
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Mythbusting Big Telecom Talking Points
Check it out as wireless industry expert Peter Nowak takes another run at “debunking, yet again, another set of wireless myths” from Big Telecom about the Canadian cell phone market. Let’s show Big Telecom we won’t put up with their head-in-the-sand attitude. Article by Peter Nowak: A little while ago,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The digital divide continues without a proper digital strategy.
An ongoing study on the state of the Internet in Canada has found two key concerns: 1.) Internet access and 2.) Internet adoption, with data indicating that this adoption problem can be linked to income – or a lack thereof. Canada’s lack of digital strategy only exacerbates this situation. We
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