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 …
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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: 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: 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…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Liberal Industry Critic Backs ISP Accountability
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…
Continue readingOpenMedia.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: 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: 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…