Stop The Cap: Time Warner investor call confirms that we’re being gouged by Big Telecom
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association: Ontario Court Protects Political Speech and Internet Anonymity
From Canadian Civil Liberties Association The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently issued a decision on a motion brought by the former mayor of the municipality of Aurora. The former…
Masnick: Court Refuses To Issue Injunction Stopping Secret Web Spycams From Running On Rental Laptops
By Mike Masnick for TechDirt A couple months ago, we wrote about the class action lawsuit from a family who discovered that the company from whom they had rented a…
Ellis: Beyond UBB: the CRTC’s war on Canadian consumers
By David Ellis for Life on the Broadband Internet In my previous post, I suggested the consumer ISP complaints revealed recently are bad enough, but only the tip of a…
Stop The Cap: Rogers has raised their usage cap…for all plans but the least expensive, most widely-used one
By Phillip Dampier for Stop The Cap Rogers Communications has announced usage cap and speed adjustments for many of its Internet service plans — changes that will bring increased allowances…
Audio: OpenMedia.ca’s comments at the UBB hearing
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: Full…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Opportunity in the Non-Profit Sector: OpenMedia.ca Development Manager
Work With OpenMedia.ca! 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…
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…
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…