Appeared in the Toronto Star on October 6, 2008 as Is An Internet Tax Coming? The emergence of cultural funding as a hot-button political issue in the current election campaign appears to have taken virtually everyone by surprise. The roughly $50 million in cuts may be tiny in terms of […]
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Telecom
Coalition Calls for Net Neutrality as an Election Issue
SaveourNet.ca has formed a broad coalition of groups calling for telecom policy to form a bigger part of the current election debate.
CBC On the Non-Debate Over Telecom
The CBC notes the lack of attention being paid to telecom issues in the current campaign.
Bell Planning to Interfere With GPS?
Several readers have pointed to a blog posting at Wellington Financial that reports that Bell is planning to interfere with the GPS signal of late-model Blackberry units. Users will reportedly experience long delays in establishing a GPS connection when using free mapping applications like Google Maps. Bell offers a competing […]
Wireless North on Cellphone Contracts
"It’s time we caught up with many countries in the rest of the world and mandated a limit on contracts, or a limit on cancellation penalties to not more than 18 months." Read the whole thing.
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