Tag: cell phones

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

Hey Big Telecom, what was that again about *needing* to raise cell phone plan prices under the new ‪‎CRTC‬ rules? Article by Ian Hardy for MobileSyrup.com: As part of the CRTC’s new ‘wireless code’ the carriers are mandated to adopt a 2-year wireless contract option. So far we’ve seen Bell,

Canadian blogger Ben Klass has something to say about Bell Canada’s expensive PR campaign – something pretty awesome. You’ll want to read this in full. Thank you to Kaiwan Munshi, Chapman Fok, Maiden Heaven and other community members for sharing this story with us. Share this image and speak out

Canada’s Big Three telecom giants are sounding increasingly desperate these days – they’re running expensive ads, that you paid for, invoking the bogeyman of foreign investment in growing new Canadian telecom start-ups. Big Telecom’s high-profile and misleading PR campaign is designed to convince the government to do a u-turn on

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

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

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 –

Canadians are uniting against Big Telecom’s latest effort to stifle authentic choice in Canada’s broken wireless market. Article by Rita Trichur for The Globe and Mail: Some of this country’s largest consumer groups are wading into the public debate erupting over Ottawa’s wireless policies, arguing that ordinary Canadians would benefit

Not sure what the big hoopla is about Verizon entering Canada’s ‪#‎wireless‬ market? Here’s your 101. Article by Amber Hildebrandt for the CBC: Canada’s three big mobile-phone providers have been ramping up their campaign to sway public sentiment against the potential entry of U.S. telecom giant Verizon into the wireless

The debate about the state of Canada’s wireless market is heating up, as recent independent reports confirm that Canadians pay some of the highest prices in the world for cellphone service. There’s also rising concern about whether big telecom companies are using new rules about 2-year contracts as an excuse

This week a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development confirmed what Canadians have been saying for years: that we pay some of the highest prices in the industrialized world for some of the worst cell phone service. Despite the fact that the data supports many of

We’re asking you: Are Big Telecom unnecessarily raising their monthly price plans in order to spite the ‪CRTC‬’s new Code of Conduct? Article by Knowlton Thomas for Techvibes: Canadian consumers rejoiced in June when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission unveiled a new wireless code that brings cellphone contract lengths

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