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OpenMedia.ca: A good start, but more action is needed.
Currently 94% of our wireless market is dominated by three companies who control much of our wireless airwaves, which allow your calls and data to reach your mobile phone. We’re seeing caps on some of these important resources, but a commitment has not been made to stop Rogers from taking
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: How New ACTA Internet Lockdown Measures Are Coming to Canada
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), once believed dead, is back from beyond the grave, and could criminalize and otherwise restrict your use of the Internet by overwriting our copyright rules. Join over 69,312 Canadians who have spoken out about ACTA’s threat to Internet freedom. Click here to send our leaders
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: It’s time to fix our broken telecom market.
Despite what Big Telecom says, it is not myth that Canadians pay some of the highest wireless prices in the industrialized world. With our cell phone report, created from your stories, we’re working to fix our broken telecom market. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Pushing back against Bell/Astral 2.0
Check it out as Lindsey Pinto pushes back against the newest attempt by Bell to control more of our media. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Big Telecom’s cell phone spin taken down once again
With the release of our plan to fix our dysfunctional cell phone market, we’ve seen Big Telecom make claims that the market is fine as it is. Our findings however, show that Canadians live a very different experience. Check it out as Michael Geist takes on these claims and shows
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: A plan to fix our broken wireless market.
We saw an outpouring of news coverage for the launch of our cell phone report last week. This spotlight on the concerns of Canadians would not have been possible without your passion and dedication to the issue. Thank you for sharing your stories with us – you made this possible.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca confronts Telus with cell phone horror stories
Our Steve Anderson faces off with Telus and brings your cell phone horror stories and concerns into the spotlight. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Cell Phone Horror Stories in the News
Yesterday saw the launch of our crowdsourced report, Time for an Upgrade: Demanding Choice in Canada’s Cell Phone Market, which amplified citizen voices in calling for an end to customer mistreatment at the hands of service providers. An incredible 2,859 Canadians visited our website to submit their “cell phone horror
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Time for an upgrade | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: This is your plan
“We absolutely could do it for less – we choose not to.” That’s what Wade Oosterman, president of Bell Mobility, told regulators.1 We’re winning and they know it. That’s why big telecom giants Rogers and Shaw created a pact to take over scarce wireless spectrum resources.2 They’re trying to take
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your digital rights on the chopping block in 16th round of TPP talks
The 16th round of secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations began this week. This extreme trade agreement could give media conglomerates more power to fine you for your Internet use and even terminate your access to the Internet. Our digital rights should not be traded in a secretive discussion that is
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Telecom Giant Bell Re-Attempts Takeover of Astral Media Assets
openmedia_logo.jpg Bell refuses to listen to public opinion and continues to consolidate control over Canadian communications rather than compete March 6, 2013 – The CRTC has called a public hearing in response to Bell—Canada’s largest telecom and media conglomerate—once again attempting to take over Astral Media. The CRTC denied Bell’s
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Remix our ‘Things Big Telecom Says’ Video!
Here is our infamous #ThingsBigTelecomSays video without sound for those who wish to remix it. Please share it with contact@openmedia.ca if you do a remix version! read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: $22,000 in roaming fees? We don’t deserve this.
Remember when David Fuller, the Chief Marketing Officer for Telus, said Canadians don’t want caps on their bills? Matt Buie, a B.C. man was hit with $22,000 in roaming fees from Fido. We need to take action to curb this bill shock. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: C-55 mythbuster and privacy in the future
Is online spying dead? New threats and the case for vigilance There has been growing concern amongst many members of the pro-privacy community that the government’s new Bill C-55 has risen from the ashes of the costly, invasive, and warrantless online spying Bill C-30 that was formally withdrawn earlier this
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Things Big Telecom Says
In anticipation of the upcoming release of our crowdsourced pro-citizen cell phone report, we’ve created a compilation of “Things Big Telecom Says”. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Meter | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Grassroots Group OpenMedia.ca Hopeful Pro-Privacy MP Borg’s Online Privacy Bill Will Lead to Important Safeguards
SOS_100xx100.png OpenMedia.ca says new NDP bill is a stepping stone in protecting Canadians’ online privacy rights February 27, 2013 – Grassroots pro-Internet organization OpenMedia.ca is hopeful that NDP MP Charmaine Borg’s private member’s bill will act as a stepping stone towards protecting Canadians’ online privacy from government authorities. OpenMedia.ca is
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The fight for our privacy continues.
In the wake Canadians’ defeat of the online spying bill C-30, the fight for our privacy continues. Companies continue to voluntarily disclose our private data to law enforcement without court oversight and with no obligation to report the disclosures.Transparency should be the norm. We need the government to make a
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