Woah! Take a look at these Internet speeds.
Woah! In Japan, some very fast Internet speeds (at 2Gbps download, 1Gbps upload) were just introduced. These speeds are so much faster than in Canada that our Internet operates at…
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Why Your High Cell Phone Bills Have Nothing To Do With The Size of Canada
Canada’s broken cell phone market has come under a lot of public scrutiny of late, with the CRTC trying to establish a set of minimum standards for wireless providers; the…
Canadians demand choice in their local communities
Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word about Canadians’ real experiences in our broken cell phone market and our citizen-powered action plan to fix it. Check out…
Progress In Canada’s High Internet Pricing — Indie ISPs lowering rates
Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of Canadians, it looks like independent ISPs like Teksavvy, Distributel, Acanac, and Start are finally gaining the ability to do what Canadians need them…
Rogers, you’ve left me with only quarters in my pocket!
Big Telecom insists Canadians’ high cell phone prices are a myth, yet we have seen and heard a very different story through your stories. Don’t let Big Telecom spin this…
USTR takes aim at Canadians’ Internet use as it pushes the TPP forward
The U.S. Trade Representative, which has been pushing forward the contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, has just released a report that criticizes certain laws and policies of countries involved in…
Pressure from Canadians is starting to have an effect: Paradis signals discomfort with the Shaw-Rogers backroom deal
Today, on a call with reporters, Industry Minister Christian Paradis signalled that he may take a stand to ensure we don’t see even less choice in Canada’s already uncompetitive and…
Globe and Mail: Why your cell phone bill will likely go up
Last week we heard that all three of our independent cell phone companies may be taken over by Big Telecom. If this happens, this will mean less choice for Canadians…
How Telus lost its credibility.
Co-authored by Catherine Hart Canadians and even the CRTC know our cell phone market is broken. Canadians pay some of the highest prices for some of the worst service in…
Mythbusting Big Telecom Talking Points
Check it out as wireless industry expert Peter Nowak takes another run at “debunking, yet again, another set of wireless myths” from Big Telecom about the Canadian cell phone market.…
Wind Mobile, Mobilicity & Public Mobile withdraw from CWTA for Big Telecom bias
Canada’s independent cell phone carriers have pulled out of the CWTA (the cell phone industry lobby group) because of a “consistent bias” for Rogers, Bell, and Telus – including the…
Want competition? Enforce the rules Minister Paradis
The government claims it wants four wireless companies in all Canadian markets, yet right now Rogers is working to grab scarce wireless spectrum assets that were set aside specifically for…
The digital divide continues without a proper digital strategy.
An ongoing study on the state of the Internet in Canada has found two key concerns: 1.) Internet access and 2.) Internet adoption, with data indicating that this adoption problem…
The Internet is smart – The wisdom of the crowd and the threat to Internet freedom by secretive trade agreements.
We asked the Internet community via Reddit, Facebook (and anywhere else that would have us) to discuss the best ways to stop threats to Internet freedom posed by multiple international…
Canadians Deserve Better: Your MP Responses to the Cell Phone Report
The government is on the defensive. After we released our community-powered report on Canada’s cell phone market1 you’ve been sending it to your MPs, calling for their support.2 While MPs…
Big Telecom wants public funds set aside to pay for warrantless online spying revival.
We defeated the online spying bill c-30, but clearly we need to increase our vigilance, push back, and demand the government commit to pro-privacy legislation. Let’s stop this spying revival…
Less than 12 Hours to Stop the Takeover!
Today is the LAST DAY to push back against Bell’s attempt to control more of our communication sources! Bell’s power grab for Astral Media would mean less choice for Canadians.…
Canadians respond to Big Telecom spin
To help us counter a campaign by Big Telecom lobbyists to suppress our voices and paint a rosy picture of our dysfunctional telecom market, we asked the pro-Internet community to…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership to police your Internet.
Check out this video about the threats the extreme and secretive TPP trade agreement would present against your use of the Internet. Among them? Decisions made in the TPP negotiations…