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Category Archives: Canadian Life
Bell want to impose upstream caps and penalties on it’s upstream ISPs
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 … Continue reading
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My complaint about Rogers to the CRTC, and their response
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Life, General, Legal, Toronto
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Rogers Wimax service in the Muskokas (Six Mile Lake)
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 … Continue reading
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Tonight’s Toronto Tech: Tuesday Event Madness!
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Business I.T., Canadian Life, I.T., Social Media, Toronto
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Canadian Net Neutrality: cease and desist to Bell Canada
You may have forgotten, or simply not know, Canada has reached the crunch point in deciding whether the Canadian ISPs should be allowed to govern what type of traffic is sent over their wires. Last year I commented: Legal precedent … Continue reading
Collusion from Canada’s Internet Service Providers?
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Canadian Competitiveness, Canadian Life, MBA, Rotman
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Toronto Wiki Tuesday mentioned in Canada’s National Post
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 … Continue reading
Wirelessnorth.ca launches with news of the Opening of the Canadian Telco Market.
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. … Continue reading
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The stupidity of Canadian Telcos with their exorbitant data rates
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. … Continue reading
Why don’t Toronto’s Go Trains stop inside the city?
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Life, Toronto
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