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…
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For Whom Does Bell Toll?: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Reilly, replacing Lindsey, with your (slightly lower-tech!) update: read more
Toronto Star: Competition bureau to allow Big Telecom’s sports and entertainment buy
Two of Canada’s biggest telecom giants, Bell and Rogers, may soon be acquiring Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment together. These companies are already very large and vertically-integrated—each own a great…
Image: The Big Telecom price-gouging cycle
The cycle of telecom price-gouging. Take action: http://pricehike.ca/ Click to enlarge. read more
The CRTC won’t regulate online video anytime soon
According to a letter from its Secretary General, the CRTC has decided to hold off on a second “fact-finding mission” on over-the-top (online video) content. We at OpenMedia.ca had been…
Financial Post: Big telcos warn of ‘market shake-out’ if pick-and-pay TV model adopted
Big Telecoms Rogers and Shaw are lobbying against the so-called ‘a la carte’ model that would allow customers to pick and pay for individual channels. The CRTC also expressed concern…
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…
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…
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…