OpenMedia.ca spoke out against a metered Internet at the CRTC’s hearing, which ran from July 11 – 19. Interested in what we had to say? Well you’re in luck:
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OpenMedia.ca: Geist: Can the CRTC act to promote competition and diversity?
By Michael Geist
The CRTC’s usage based billing oral hearing concluded yesterday with a final decision expected some time in the fall. This long post focuses on the shift in CRTC thinking on the state of broadband competition in Canada but wonders whe…
OpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca Meets With Another MP: Don Davies, Vancouver-Kingsway
Last Thursday, I sat down with MP Don Davies to talk about four of the key recommendations from Casting an Open Net. These are the four main things OpenMedia.ca is calling for, in order to address the underlying problems that have led to price gouging …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC covers the usage-based billing (UBB) hearing
Monday, July 11, marked the beginning of a two-week-long CRTC hearing on Internet metering. This is the result of Canadians signing our online petition, their engagement with Internet openness and affordability issues, and their ongoing efforts to spre…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Mark Coatsworth on the Usage-Based Billing Hearing
Taking on Big Telecom: A Trip to the CRTC’s UBB Hearings
by Mark Coatsworth for The Torontoist
The CRTC began hearings this week to help it decide whether to uphold or reverse its controversial January decision on usage-based billing. Mark Coatsworth, …
OpenMedia.ca: In response to Bissonette: Shaw’s movie service is still problematic, and Bell’s isn’t better
The net neutrality violation that never was
OpenMedia.ca put out a press release this morning in response to comments Shaw president Peter Bissonnette provided to the Calgary Herald last night. The cable giant’s head announced a new online movie servic…
OpenMedia.ca: Shaw to turn the Internet into a two-tier service
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Shaw will shape the Internet to give preference to its own content
July 15, 2011 – After presenting a purportedly pr…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: FP Tech Desk talks to Michael Geist about the UBB hearing
Audio from FP Tech Desk
Check out Financial Post telecom reporter Jamie Sturgeon’s interview with University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist, who has written extensively about the pro-Internet community’s fight against usage-based billing (Intern…
OpenMedia.ca: UBB Hearing Report from the Pro-Internet Community’s Andrew Moore
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Andrew Moore, long-time member of the pro-Internet community and OpenMedia.ca’s Digital Action Team, gives a video update on the usage-based billing hearings happening this week:
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Geist: What is so undemocratic about allowing a few companies to control the Net?
By Michael Geist
The second day of the CRTC hearing on usage based billing left the Commission with three fairly divergent views on Canadian networks, traffic management, and the wholesale tariff (coverage from the Globe, Cartt.ca, Wire Report). While …
OpenMedia.ca: NDP post confirms their opposition to invasive online spying bills
The NDP published a blog post today condemning proposed online spying legislation — known as “Lawful Access” bills C-50, C-51, and C-52. The stated NDP position supports that of over 41,000 people from pro-Internet community, who have signed a petitio…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The CRTC’s Over-the-top ‘Fact Finding Mission’: Key Submissions
For the second time in two years the CRTC has requested submissions from concerned parties on the increasing prevalence of over-the-top (OTT) services.
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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: OpenMedia.ca Goes to the UBB Hearing
Monday, July 11, marked the beginning of a two-week-long CRTC hearing on Internet metering. This is the result of your signing our online petition, your engagement with Internet openness and affordability issues, and your ongoing efforts to spread the word.
OpenMedia.ca will be at the hearing on behalf of all Canadians, telling the CRTC to stop the meter on Internet use (but with more legal jargon). We’ll be live-tweeting from CRTC headquarters in order to keep you up to date on what Canada’s digital future holds.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC’s Search Engine: Google on Canada’s OTT (online video) fact-finding mission
CBC Search Engine’s Jesse Brown interviews Jacob Glick, the Canada Policy Counsel for Google, about the CRTC’s “fact finding mission” on Over-The-Top content (e.g. online video):
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Geist: Bell’s Testimony at the UBB Hearing Shatters the ‘Network Congestion’ Argument
By Michael Geist
The CRTC hearing on wholesale usage based billing opened yesterday with Bell leading off in front of a packed room (coverage from the Globe, National Post, Quebecor, and Wire Report). By the time lunch rolled around, it was clear that…
OpenMedia.ca: Postmedia: A look at CRTC Chair Von Finckenstein
By Sarah Schmidt for PostMedia News
OTTAWA — When Konrad von Finckenstein was appointed chairman of the CRTC in January 2007, news reports at the time hinted that broadcast and telecom executives could be in for a rough ride.
Pegged as “pro-consume…
OpenMedia.ca: UBB Hearing Media Round-Up: Day 1
Prelude | Day 1 | Day 2
To help keep you informed on the CRTC’s usage-based billing (Internet metering) hearing, we’ve decided to use this page to round up all the relevant media coverage its getting.
You can also learn more by checking out our live t…
OpenMedia.ca: Geist: On Internet Metering and Net Neutrality
By Michael Geist
The CRTC hearing on usage based billing opens this morning with two of the big players – Bell and Open Media – both slated to appear. Since the CRTC refused to extend the hearing to retail usage based billing issues, I suspect the outc…
OpenMedia.ca: Stop The Meter Comes to Fruition: Canadians Will Engage in Hearing In Historic Numbers
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July 11, 2011 – Thousands of Canadians will be tuning into the CRTC hearings on usage-based billing today, during which one of Canada’s most prolific citizen engagement org…
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