Comments on: Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please. http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/ "Ideas are like Raindrops!" Martin on Web 2.0, Wiki, Conceptmapping, Middleware and Organisations Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:23:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/ http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-31434 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/ Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:54:28 +0000 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-31434 [...] writing a post about this entry http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/ Stay [...] […] writing a post about this entry http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/ Stay […]

]]> By: Martin Cleaver, masterfully. » Blog Archive » The stupidity of Canadian Telcos with their exhoribitant data rates http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-6536 Martin Cleaver, masterfully. » Blog Archive » The stupidity of Canadian Telcos with their exhoribitant data rates Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:58:02 +0000 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-6536 [...] In the same the theme as my posting Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please, my friend Thomas Purves just posted the above stark graphic contrasting the rates people living in Canada pay compared to others around the world. In the following I summarize an investigation of my own and what I think are some of the more interesting comments to date. In a brief moment of hope I thought the CRTC was going to fix things, only to find that it is out of their hands… [...] […] In the same the theme as my posting Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please, my friend Thomas Purves just posted the above stark graphic contrasting the rates people living in Canada pay compared to others around the world. In the following I summarize an investigation of my own and what I think are some of the more interesting comments to date. In a brief moment of hope I thought the CRTC was going to fix things, only to find that it is out of their hands… […]

]]> By: Martin Cleaver http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-5439 Martin Cleaver Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:13:59 +0000 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-5439 http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2004/11/08/rogers_110804.html reports on the acquisition. I'm pretty sure that the acquisition would have been prohibited by the government had it occurred in the U.K. for exactly monopoly reasons. Most of the world operates on GSM http://www.usagewatch.org/usage_of_mobile_phones/index.html - and http://www.itu.int/itunews/issue/2003/06/thirdgeneration.html reminds me - what's happening with 3G in this country and where will each Canadian "competitor*" play in this field? * I use the term "competitor" lightly. http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2004/11/08/rogers_110804.html reports on the acquisition. I’m pretty sure that the acquisition would have been prohibited by the government had it occurred in the U.K. for exactly monopoly reasons.

Most of the world operates on GSM http://www.usagewatch.org/usage_of_mobile_phones/index.html - and http://www.itu.int/itunews/issue/2003/06/thirdgeneration.html reminds me - what’s happening with 3G in this country and where will each Canadian “competitor*” play in this field?

* I use the term “competitor” lightly.

]]> By: Arshad Merali http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-5411 Arshad Merali Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:43:35 +0000 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-5411 Sounds like Rogers thinks they have a monopoly on mobile phones? Ummm, does only GSM carrier count as a monopoly? Sounds like Rogers thinks they have a monopoly on mobile phones? Ummm, does only GSM carrier count as a monopoly?

]]> By: rogers » Blog Archive » Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please. http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-5409 rogers » Blog Archive » Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:36:12 +0000 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-5409 [...] Original post by Martin Cleaver [...] […] Original post by Martin Cleaver […]

]]> By: Martin Cleaver http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-5405 Martin Cleaver Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:36:48 +0000 http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/03/12/rogers-1124-mb-that-will-be-5755-please/#comment-5405 Thanks to Rannie for mentioning: http://www.oshawapilot.ca/?p=439 In particular, T-mobile in the US charge $19.99 for unlimited data to my Treo. Canadian rip-off? Yup. Go figure. Thanks to Rannie for mentioning:

http://www.oshawapilot.ca/?p=439

In particular, T-mobile in the US charge $19.99 for unlimited data to my Treo.

Canadian rip-off? Yup. Go figure.

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