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Telecom

Rogers Responds to Wireless Column

Rogers Wireless President Rob Bruce responds to my recent column on Canada's wireless crisis in a letter to the editor.

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May 29, 2008 11 comments News

The Angus Net Neutrality Bill

NDP MP Charlie Angus introduced his private member's net neutrality bill in the House of Commons this afternoon.  The short bill seeks to add transparency, neutral network management, and open devices to the Canadian telecom law framework: Network operators shall not engage in network management practices that favour, degrade or […]

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May 28, 2008 10 comments News

Spectrum Auction Underway This Week

Canadian Press covers the beginning of the AWS spectrum auctions that opens this week.

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May 25, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

Bell Launches On-Demand Video Service

When Bell's throttling practices came to light earlier this year, I wrote the following in an assessing the competition concerns: The major ISPs claim that throttling is needed to ensure better quality of service to all customers, yet it also has a significant effect on the video marketplace.  Cable and […]

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May 21, 2008 23 comments News

CRTC Sets Timeline for Throttling Case

The CRTC this morning issued its promised plan for addressing the substantive issues raised by the CAIP complaint over Bell's throttling practices.  The plan has an aggressive timeline with all submissions in by June 26th and a decision promised within 90 days.   Bell and CAIP have been asked to respond […]

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May 15, 2008 12 comments News