STC: Broadband costs decline – so why don’t our prices?
Canadian citizens are being price-gouged by Big Telecom even as their costs seemingly go down. We’re paying more but falling behind and getting less than our global counterparts due to…
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The Globe & Mail: Rogers and Bell to purchase majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment
Two of Canada’s biggest media conglomerates, Bell and Rogers, are partnering up. Their goal? To take control of the iconic Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment group. The CRTC approved the…
Big Telecom’s Power Grab | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your update: As big telecom company Bell gets set to take over Astral Media, we’re likely to be seeing even higher prices, tighter contracts, and more…
Financial Post – Canada’s telecom giants face $18-billion class action suit over system access fees
An $18-billion class-action suit has received the go-ahead to proceed against Canada’s Big Telecom companies. What’s the contested litigation? The long-imposed – but often vague – system access fees. Late…
The Globe and Mail: Where are Bell’s ‘tangible benefits’?
For whom does Bell toll? The Canadian consumer, apparently. More details have emerged on Bell’s avoidance of paying obligatory ‘tangible benefits’ in their takeover of Astral. These tangible benefits are…
The Globe and Mail: Bell seeks to use $40M of tangible public benefits to fund Northern expansion
Big Telecom company Bell wants to use public benefit funds to bankroll its expansion into Northern Canada. “For Bell Canada and its subsidiary to propose this to the CRTC is…
TVO: OpenMedia.ca’s founder on the open Internet
I (Steve Anderson, OpenMedia.ca’s founder) don’t often have the opportunity to talk about how I got involved in safeguarding the possibilities of the Internet, or how OpenMedia.ca operates. If you’re…
What the Future Holds: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Canada’s next great CRTC chair
Canada has a new CRTC chair: Jean Pierre Blais. The appointment will take effect on June 18. We were hoping to publish this blog post before the decision was made,…
GigaOM: UN wants to take over management of the Internet
We’ve been fighting successfully with the pro-Internet community to keep the Internet free of government control, but a new challenge is lurking on the horizon; the UN’s International Telecommunications Union…
Action on the Homefront: Introducing the Street Team Program
As part of OpenMedia.ca’s commitment to community engagement and ground-level participation in the fight for a more open, affordable Internet, we are pleased to introduce the OpenMedia.ca Street Team program.…
The Verge: Netherlands passes Internet openness law
This week, the Netherlands passed net neutrality (Internet openness) rules, which will prevent telecom companies from stifling online choice. We’re part of a global pro-Internet community that is, over time,…
Video: Bell’s touch tone phone charge
Another example of how big telecom companies price-gouge Canadians. Let’s continue to grow our community so we can change the industry and safeguard the possibilities of the open and affordable…
Paradis talks digital economy at Canada 3.0
Today Industry Minister Christian Paradis gave a speech to the Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum in Stratford, Ontario, in which he reaffirmed the government’s commitment to a long-overdue digital economy…
Speak Up! The CRTC is listening: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
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ISLR: The fastest networks in the U.S. are built by local governments
It’s interesting to see how, in this U.S. example, that towns and cities that create their own Internet infrastructure are doing a way better job offering faster, cheaper Internet than…
What should we focus on going forward?: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Big Telecom’s good idea: National standards to protect consumers
You read that title correctly. Here’s the idea: Rogers recently filed an application with the CRTC asking “for stronger protections for customers of wireless services”, not long after Telus made…