Today, in response to the release of hundreds of pages of unresolved Internet openness complaints, Liberal Industry and Consumer Affairs Critic, Hon. Geoff Regan, announced his support for CRTC audits of Canadian ISPs’ online traffic management practic…
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OpenMedia.ca: Techvibes: The unfathomable markup of text messaging
By Knowlton Thomas for Techvibes
Text messaging, or SMS, has become one of the core elements of the mobile world. Smartphones or dumbphones, prepaid or postpaid, everyone texts. You may not watch videos or take pictures or check your email—or you may…
OpenMedia.ca: Big Telecom Customers’ Complaints Go Ignored by the CRTC
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Access to Information Request Reveals Extreme Lack of Enforcement of Internet Openness Rules
July 8, 2011 – An Acces…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Geist: Submissions from the OTT "fear-finding exercise"
By Michael Geist
The final batch of submissions in the CRTC’s over-the-top video fact finding exercise were posted yesterday. I focused on the lack of evidence and the fear of competition for foreign content in my first post on the submissions. The lat…
OpenMedia.ca: Letter to Supporters: This is what we’ve been waiting for
When Stop The Meter kicked off in the fall, who would have thought we’d come this far? With your help our historic Stop The Meter campaign pressured all of the major political parties to adopt our position, and ultimately forced the CRTC to launch…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Why Internet monitoring is bad for Canada
By Steve Anderson for Rabble.ca
The government has promised to push through an invasive, anti-Internet set of “Lawful Access” electronic surveillance laws within the first 100 days of Parliament. If passed, these laws will turn Internet service provide…
OpenMedia.ca: Fundamental guiding rules for telecom-media-Internet politics
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
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OpenMedia.ca: Transparency: A Core Value of Google
On June 27, 2011, Google released their third Transparency Report, revealing data that shows the extent of government online spying worldwide. Traffic and government request statistics prove that there have been numerous, ongoing attempts to disrupt th…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca Boycotts CRTC Hearing as the Commission Faces Charges of Bias
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July 6, 2011 – OpenMedia.ca is announcing its boycott of the CRTC’s controversial hearing on over-the-top (OTT) content, which will determine whether online video services l…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Opportunity in the Non-Profit Sector: OpenMedia.ca Development Manager
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OpenMedia.ca is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization working to advance and support an open and innovative communications system in Canada. Our primary goal is to increase public awareness and informed participatio…
OpenMedia.ca: Geist: What might a competition-focused broadcast policy look like?
By Michael Geist for TheStar.com
As the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission concludes its hearing on the consolidation of the Canadian communications market into a handful of corporate giants (so-called vertical integration) and…
OpenMedia.ca: Itbusiness.ca: Independent ISPs come out against Lawful Access
By Nestor E. Arellano for itbusiness.ca
There has been no shortage of protests over the civil rights and privacy implications of the set of proposed laws now collectively known as Lawful Access bills put forward by Stephen Harper’s Conservative governm…
OpenMedia.ca: Letter to Supporters: This is a huge opportunity
New development: Independent ISPs — which fight Big Telecom to provide us with affordable Internet prices — have come out publicly to say the government’s online spying plan will destroy Canada’s already fragile Internet choice and competition. I…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca at the Canadian Telecom Summit: It Takes Three to Dance the Telecom Tango
It’s been just over a month since this year’s Canadian Telecommunications Summit — the invitation-only event for Canada’s leaders in telecommunications — and already its influence can be seen in the hackneyed proceedings of the CRTC’s verti…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Letter to Supporters: Less privacy, more cost – the wrong direction for Canadians
Last week we told you about the Government’s invasive, costly Internet spying bill. We asked you to sign a petition opposing this unnecessary violation of Internet freedom.
You responded! 30,000+ of you signed our petition in mere hours!
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OpenMedia.ca: Civil Society Coalition Rejects OECD’s Internet Policy
This week the OECD released a Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy-making. For the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other members of the OECD’s Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC), the OECD Internet Policy Pri…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: BC Government to invest $1 billion in Telus network
Substantial upgrades to internet and cell phone service in rural BC are in the works thanks to a new deal between the BC government and Telus. Over the next 10 years the government will contribute $1 billion towards upgrades of broadband internet and w…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The vertical integration hearing is getting curiouser and curiouser
Cross-posted from The Globe And Mail
In the first of two column’s last week I offered evidence and argument as to why the CRTC’s current vertical integration hearing is not likely to deal effectively with the question of telecom, media and Internet…
OpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca Available for Comment: Penalizing Bell for Deceiving and Gouging Customers Addresses Symptom, not Disease
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Steve Anderson – Founder and Executive Director of OpenMedia.ca, the citizen engagement organization behind the 490,000-strong Stop The Meter campaign, and co-author of …
OpenMedia.ca: Jesse Brown: Police Could Automate Online Spying
By Jesse Brown for Macleans
When I caution people about the coming Lawful Access spying laws, there’s often some confusion. Many assume that spying on the Internet is like putting a wiretap on a phone. So the police will be able to listen to my Skype…