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Postmedia: Consumers reject roaming fees
Canadians pay the highest roaming fees in the industrialized world (study: http://bit.ly/lY5vcB), on top of some of the highest prices for cell phone and Internet service in general. As part…
Globe: CRTC approves plan for Broadcast Participation Fund
High media concentration means that Canadians will be evermore impacted by the decisions that Big Telecom makes. When Bell bought CTV, the CRTC made them promise to put money aside…
Transparency kindling at the CRTC
The CRTC has been the site of some major changes as the pro-Internet community has gotten more and more active. From being a very industry-centric and closed-off regulator, they are…
TED speaker looks at the Internet and reimagines government
This is a great video on how the Internet can be used to reimagine the role and process of government so that it’s more open, transparent, engaging and responsive to…
Globe: All evidence points to Canada’s increasing digital deficit
By Tavia Grant for the Globe and Mail Canadian businesses and governments are lagging several western nations in the “Internet economy” and are being warned that they risk falling even…
Guest Blog: The beginnings of the Internet Lockdown
by Russell McOrmond I’m just a technical guy. I make my living as a systems administrator, software author and Internet consultant. After watching failures of the legislative process in the…
Bell to gobble up Astral Media
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis Sometimes I just wish I could wake up in the morning and not be thrust into the hurly-burly of all the stuff roiling the telecom-media-Internet industries in…
Big Telecom gets bigger: Bell announces its purchase of Astral Media
Today Bell announced that it’s getting bigger; it will soon be in control of Astral Media, and the cellphone, Internet, land-line services, radio stations, and television holdings that come with…
Postmedia: The decision on the cell phone squeeze has come
It looks like Canadians—especially those who added their names to the petition at http://StopTheSqueeze.ca/ or sent our report to their MP—have had an effect in forcing the Big Three to…
Government Takes Half-Measured Approach to Crucial Cell Phone Decision
openmedia_logo.jpg Canadians unimpressed with the government’s “fix” for broken cell phone market March 14, 2012 – The government made a decision today that will determine how cell phone pricing and…
Total Telecom: Throttling Rampant in Europe
While the CRTC has recently reprimanded Rogers for continuing to implement the discriminatory use of P2P throttling, the pro-internet community in Europe is calling for tough action from regulators to…
No Internet Lockdown petition gets shout-out in Parliament
The No Internet Lockdown petition made its way into Parliament today. NDP MP Andrew Cash mentioned to petition and the public outcry in the Committee meeting. read more
Guest Blog: Final report from #C11 parliamentary legislative committee
Clause-by-clause finished today, and the bill is now being reprinted (with the Government amendments that all passed — no opposition passed) and sent back to the house for third reading…