Rogers To Respond To CRTC Over Throttling Tomorrow
Rogers is supposed to be responding to the CRTC over evidence the CRTC found of throttling non-P2P applications tomorrow. It is unclear whether if Rogers will in fact respond, and…
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Canadian Gamers Stick up for PS3 Elite Premium Members
Sent today on behalf of the Canadian Gamers Organization TO: Competition Bureau of Canada 50 Victoria Street Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0C9 SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY RE: Activision Pre-Release Advertising on Call of…
CRTC Slaps Rogers for Throttling Non-P2P Traffic
January 20, 2012 – The Canadian Gamers Organization got word today that the CRTC’s enforcement division has found Rogers to not be non-compliant with CRTC net neutrality policy, and that…
Canadian Competition Bureau Rules on COD Pact
The Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO) got a phone call from the Canadian Competition Bureau this afternoon with the results of their investigation on the Call of Duty (COD) pact between…
CGO Asks Competition Bureau to Investigate COD Pact
The Canadian Gamers Organization has asked the Canadian Competition Bureau to further investigate the pact between Activision and Microsoft allowing Xbox users to receive Call of Duty Elite Premium benefits…
SOPA Developments
This past week has seen a lot of pressure mounting against a piece of US domestic legislation the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Game publishers this week are increasingly being…
Canadian Gamers Weigh In On SOPA
The Canadian Gamers Organization is a gamer advocacy group based in Canada. We are currently watching developments across the border on a piece of US legislation that may impact the…
Ontario Ombudsman Gets Shafted by Rogers Technical Support
I just happened to catch a tweet Tuesday night from our Ontario Ombudsman André Marin basically complaining that slow speeds he is experiencing ended up being not Rogers fault, and…
CGOs Response to Bells Decision to Drop Throttling
Bell announced yesterday that it will discontinue ALL its throttling practices on all consumer connections starting March 1st, 2012. This means for all Bell customers, retail and wholesale. The Canadian…
Gamers See No CRTC Enforcement After One Month
The CRTC has still yet to put forth any indication of what enforcement measures it will apply against Rogers, after the CRTC found Rogers to be in violation of net…
Gamers Welcome CRTC’s UBB Decision But It Falls Short
The Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO) welcomes the CRTC’s decision today to scrap data caps on independent ISPs. CGO co-founder Jason Koblovsky says that usage based billing (UBB) schemes have a…
Gamers Take a Stand For Online Choice
Gamers demonstrate Rogers’ restrictions, ask for open access to online games For Immediate Release: October 17, 2011—The Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO), a group currently at the forefront of the fight…
CGO’s October 14th Reply To The CRTC
The Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO) received a letter frrom the CRTC requesting more info on games that are throttled by Rogers. The original date for reply was set on October…
CGO requests “Clarification” of CRTC Request
Yesterday the Canadian Gamers Organization received an odd e-mail from the CRTC. I’m not prepared to accept the response we got today from the CRTC. There’s no logic or justification…
CGO Correction From Press Release
Last night we put forth our press release on Rogers response to the CRTC. In it I stated that: “We also believe this issue is widespread to ISP’s who use…
Rogers Does Not Comply With CRTC Order In Latest Response
***FOR IMMIDATE RELEASE*** Contact: Jason Koblovsky jkoblovsky@rogers.com read more
Gamers Unhappy About New Throttling Guidelines
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:*** TORONTO, ONTARIO: The CRTC, Canada's telecommunications regulator, has released new guidelines for throttling complaints, which puts the responsibility for monitoring Internet providers' compliance with Internet openness po...
CGO’s Reaction To CRTC’s New Complaints Procedure
The CRTC has released new complaint guidelines for ISPs to follow when dealing with consumer complaints around throttling. read more
Rogers E-mails CGO in Face of Consumer Backlash
Yesterday we ended being e-mailed twice by an employee at Rogers who seems to be the social media spin doctor for the company, trying to court our support. Below are…
Showdown: CRTC Vs. Rogers on Net Neutrality Enforcement
On Friday the CRTC released a letter to Rogers stating that the possibility of other games being affected by the ITMP misclassification bug maybe in fact against section 36 of…