115.jpg WHAT: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has just released their annual status report on Complaints Related to Internet Traffic Management Practices. The report indicates that the number…
Twitter is now blocking an account that parodies Rogers, likely due to a complaint from the telecom giant. The account made humourous but critical comments about Rogers’ cell phone price-gouging,…
Check out this volunteer-made video of our own Reilly Yeo, who explains why the open Internet is so important. Spread it around to show why your involvement in Canada’s digital…
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Our job at OpenMedia.ca is to amplify citizens voices in the fight for our digital future. So when Canadians took action and told your tales at CellPhoneHorrorStory.ca, we listened and…
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This week, Canadians learned that big telecom company Telus will be further limiting how much its customers can use the Internet. Soon after, we learned that big telecom company Bell…
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Takeover_210x150_120816.png Big Telecom Tries to Flip Last Month’s Public Interest Decision From the CRTC November 19, 2012 – Big telecom company Bell is once again trying to take over Astral...
HorrorStory-Halloween_PriceGouging.jpg October 31, 2012 – OpenMedia.ca knows that Canadians find their cell phone providers ghoulish; now the grassroots group is trying to determine which type of cell phone horror haunts…
Tariffs_100x100_120117.png Pro-Internet community lauds CRTC decision to open up Big Telecom’s costing process October 26, 2012 – The CRTC announced today that Big Telecom will have to make more of…
Takeover_210x150_120816.png WHO: Steve Anderson, Executive Director, OpenMedia.ca Lindsey Pinto, Communications Manager, OpenMedia.ca Janet Lo, Legal Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) John Lawford, Executive Director and General Counsel, PIAC WHAT:…
The beginning It started with Stop The Meter. The CRTC’s 2011 decision to allow Big Telecom to impose punitive extra fees across the entire Internet service market was the breaking…
Takeover_210x150_120816.png CRTC denies Bell’s bid to take over Astral; finds deal to be counter to public interest October 18, 2012 – Today the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) listened…
HorrorStory_100x100-2_121016.jpg Public interest group asks citizens to show the human side of a broken cell phone market October 17, 2012 – In response to the CRTC’s recent call for citizen…
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openmedia_logo.jpg Grassroots group lauds announcement of public consultation for national rules for wireless October 11, 2012 – Today, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced today they will hold…
TPPp2_100X100_120904.png October 9, 2012 – Canada became an official signatory to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement today, as citizens express concerns about the deal’s negative implications for Internet openness and…
The CRTC announced yesterday that two positions will soon be opening up: Vice-Chairperson, Telecommunications (replacing outgoing vice-chair Len Katz) and Regional Member. In addition to those vacancies, five (out of…
