I received this a few hours ago from my ISP, Teksavvy.
I object that:
If there was really a scarcity tariffs should be priced at decreasing marginal rate, not at a punitive one
This affects everyone but the deadline is tonight, and there’s been no public consultation
Dear Valued Customer,
We are writing to you today as many activities are […]
The power that Rogers exert in the market for wireless, wireless data and broadband internet is utterly ridiculous. The competitive situation for these services in Canada has always been poor, but the situation was made much worse when they bought Microcell.
Since we’ve had GSM monopoly the ONLY way to use innovative GSM products is through […]
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 […]
Toronto’s tech sector is on fire!
When I first arrived in Toronto in 2004 I found very little in the way of Tech community. I was told that the Dot Com Crash had pretty much annihilated every shred of enthusiasm this city had left to offer.
Today, in 2008, there’s no doubt in my mind that […]
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 […]
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 […]
In terms of transit, one of the things that shocked me most when I moved to Toronto was the lack of suburban railways, especially compared to London, England and Melbourne, Australia, two places I’ve to date spent much of my working life.
Toronto has corridors already for trains, use these for the city, not just to […]
