saveournet200x200.png OpenMedia.ca joins with Manitoba resident Ben Klass to call on the CRTC to stop Big Telecom from making independent services more expensive for Canadians November 20, 2013 – Today,…
Ottawa will crack down on big telecom companies hoarding this valuable resource – and that’s all thanks to Canadians who have been keeping up the pressure! Let’s keep sending Industry…
Required reading: As leaked texts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership reveal plans to make the Internet even more expensive, let’s not forget about the growing digital divide that makes it challenging…
A key ask in our Time for an Upgrade crowdsourced plan to fix Canada’s broken telecom market (https://OpenMedia.ca/UpgradeCanada) is that the CRTC oversee cost-based resale roaming rates to ensure that…
OpenMedia’s Steve Anderson has always stood up on behalf of Canadians against price-gouging, poor service, and poor policies that exclude Canadians from accessing affordable telecom options. Here he is doing…
Telecom expert Peter Nowak makes a simple but clear point about wireless pricing in Canada. From Peter Nowak’s blog: In two weeks time, I’ll be taking part in a panel…
We’re now just weeks away from the implementation of customer-friendly new wireless rules, which come into force on December 2nd. In this piece, OpenMedia community member Ben Klaas looks at…
Telecom complaints have soared over 31% in just 12 months – and our own Steve Anderson was quick to respond. Speaking on CBC News, he called out the Big Three…
A recent Statistics Canada report showed that high wireless prices are shutting out lower-income Canadians from accessing affordable Internet services. According to Telecom expert Michael Geist, “The digital divide remains…
Canadians are increasingly raising their voices against Big Telecom according to this Industry watchdog. Let’s keep this going. Send a message to Industry Minister Moore at: https://OpenMedia.ca/Gatekeepers Article by LuAnn…
openmedialogo.jpg Canadians still waiting to see whether government lives up to promise to secure more choice and lower prices in broken telecom market WHO Steve Anderson, Executive Director, OpenMedia.ca David…
We’re happy to report that your OpenMedia.ca team is intervening on the side of Canadians to protect hard-won cell phone customer protection rules that are under legal threat from Big…
Great news from Ontario – the legislative assembly has voted unanimously for customer-friendly new cell phone rules to tackle some of the worst abuses of Big Telecom. The rules, which…
Industry Canada takes a stand against Telus buying indie cell phone company Mobilicity; but it’s time for our government to move beyond preventing our broken telecom market from getting worse…
big3_appeal.png Citizen-backed OpenMedia.ca says Canadians will welcome moves to stop Big Telecom narrowing their wireless choices yet further, but action still needed to fix broken market October 30, 2013 –…
Last week, we told you about how big telecom company Bell wants to scoop up (paying) customer’s data. This indie ISP in Nova Scotia wanted to make its policy on…
Canada’s wireless market has taken another step backwards. Yesterday, telecom giant Telus announced it has bought out Public Mobile, a small independent carrier with 280,000 customers in Quebec and Ontario.…
At OpenMedia, we were starting to believe we’d seen it all when it comes to the arrogance of Big Telecom. We’ve seen their expensive and misleading ad campaign which spectacularly…
Earlier this week, we learned that someone’s credit rating was ruined by Rogers Wireless despite never having been a customer. Now we learn that a collection agency contracted by Rogers…
OpenMedia_Sidebar_Image.png Canadians will be watching closely to see whether the government lives up to their promise to secure more choice and lower prices in broken telecom market WHO Steve Anderson,…
