Globe: Bell hikes payphone rates
Big telecom company Bell is trying to raise prices anywhere they can, including through payphones. Though not as popular as they once were, payphones are especially useful to those with…
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Mercer Report: The Bell-Rogers anger continuum (Spoof)
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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…
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…
Media Advisory: Bell to Acquire Astral Media in Already-Concentrated Market; OpenMedia.ca Available for Comment
openmedia_logo.jpg WHO: Steve Anderson, Executive Director, OpenMedia.ca Lindsey Pinto, Communications Manager, OpenMedia.ca WHAT: Bell has announced that it will soon be in control of Astral Media, and the cellphone, Internet,…
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…