Martin Cleaver, masterfully.

If Rogers’ questionable policy of redirecting DNS misses wasn’t already enough, this has got to be:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20824864-URL-Manipulation
What Rogers has done is review the URL structure used by this feature when using the Microsoft Live.com search provider. This particular provider takes what is typed into the address bar, when DNS name resolution fails redirects your entry too:
»search.live.com/results.aspx?q=y···-Address
The […]

While the telecoms industry in Canada is widely* criticized as offering poor value** compared to other countries, the huge leveraged revenue streams from those obscene 3 year cellphone plans may be what’s funding the single telco service I am a huge fan of: WiMax***.
* especially by me
** net neutrality issues, system-access fees, extortionate plans for […]

Legal precedent states that your ISP is a Common Carrier. This means that they are not responsible for policing what kind of packets they deliver to your house, nor do they have any right to go poking around in the packets delivered to you. So, if you want to read the political views of an ousted dissonant your ISP is not responsible for enforcing that rule. Their role is to get the information from one place to another, with neither interest nor responsibility for the content.

In the same week, Bell and Rogers have hit the Canadian public hard, imposing limits on how we use the internet.
DSL: Not only has Bell imposed this on their own customers but also on their wholesale resellers, organisations such as Teksavvy, who they have started traffic-shaping, cutting off many of the newest services […]

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays got a brief mention in today’s National Post

‘‘I will be heading to Rower’s Pub to this month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday, Toronto’s dedicated Wiki event. We’ve had some great topics, talking about how using a wiki efficiently creates knowledge, how we can use them to couple thinking to the output of systems […]

Shove over Rogers, Bell and Telus.

I’ve been long griping about the Canadian Telcos and their stupid, exorbitant data rates:

[Canadian oligopolistic Telcos] will only voluntarily drop their prices if they thought that they’d make more money by doing so. Their duty is to please their shareholders, not the public, though they could stand to make much […]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071010.WBcyberia20071010144751/WBStory/WBcyberia

The reason Rogers is tight-lipped about why it hasn’t struck a deal to bring Apple’s iPhone into Canada is because it would involve an embarrassing admission: To make the iPhone financially attractive, Rogers would have to cut the rates it charges its customers for data. And what company wants to cut its prices when there […]

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) wants to double charge for the internet
Many ordinary internet users are unaware: there’s a war being fought by the net savvy for everyone’s right to get to the internet. Net Neutrality centers on the argument that:
Everyone pays for their own Internet connection.Google is paying lots of money for lots of […]

Would you be happier on a Mobile Virtual Operator’s network?
Given I am currently on Rogers, and the sort of service I would pay extra for (mobile data) is just a rip off, I’m looking at other options, and scaling back my ambitions. My contract with Rogers is up in about 10 days (and what’s with […]

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 […]