Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 11, 2008 as Text-Message Spat Obscures Costlier Issues Of all the recent controversies involving Canada’s wireless carriers – and there have been many – the fight over the 15-cent charge for the receipt of text messages must surely rank as the most puzzling. […]
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A commenter to the blog reports that Rogers has caved on the DNS re-direct issue following intense criticism from many companies who found that the approach hampered the ability for employees to work from home. The company has reportedly established an alternate DNS server at altdns.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com (64.71.255.202). If this is […]
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