Martin Cleaver, masterfully.

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Rogers just credited me back the $57.55 they charged me today for just over 1 MB of data on my phone:

I didn’t have a plan for data but, ouch.
I’m not going to judge Rogers for this, but, to quote my friends:

what a cash grab..

yikes

and:

holy x*#@

And I said to customer service:

I had already told you (in […]

After reading http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=ca I noted just how badly Rogers, my current ISP, is rated for speed. Further people really complain about Rogers so I assume they’ve pushed it further and done more extensive comparisons than me.
To pick a replacement, here’s that DSL report for Canada showing service provider speeds. I then checked the providers to […]

The Toronto Star carried “Tech bubble 2.0: vive la différence” from DAN FOST of the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE today:

“I absolutely think we’re in a bubble, but the bubble we’re in is very different,” said Joe Kraus, Chief Executive Officer of JotSpot, a Web 2.0 [Wiki] company that provides software that businesspeople use for collaboration.
“A huge […]