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Why Your Cell Phone Fees Are Increasing, Again

Catherine Hart | Posted 05.10.2013 | Canada
Catherine Hart

Big telecom companies can only price-gouge us like this because the government refuses to enforce its own rules. Canadian familiess and businesses already pay some of the highest prices in the industrialized world for some of the worst service. At this rate, it's only going to get worse.

Why Canadians Are Doing Less Talking On The Phone

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.19.2013 | Canada Business

MONTREAL - Here's my cell number. Call me, maybe?Or maybe not. Cellphone users are doing less calling as they buy more smartphones and use the device ...

Who's Watching You on the Internet?

Dwayne Winseck | Posted 12.14.2012 | Canada Business
Dwayne Winseck

2012-10-11-nonspeak.jpg We have reached a critical juncture where choices and decisions made now could tilt the evolution of the network media ecology in Canada toward a more closed, surveilled and centralized regime instead of an open one that strives to put as much of the internet's capabilities into as many people's hands as possible.

Canada's Telecom Companies Have a Big Secret

Michael Geist | Posted 07.22.2012 | Canada Business
Michael Geist

Canada's telecom service providers, which include the major telecom carriers and Internet service providers, have remained strangely silent on the issue of Canada's proposed Internet surveillance. Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act offer a troubling explanation for this silence.

Government's New Telecom Policy: Nothing to Call Home About

Michael Geist | Posted 05.15.2012 | Canada Business
Michael Geist

The government unveiled its plans yesterday for the next spectrum auction but it remains too timid in places. The reliance on spectrum caps is reasonable, but the foreign ownership restriction changes do not go far enough and the decision to forego mandated open access is a blow to Canada's still-missing digital economy strategy.

Coming To Canada Was A Bad Move, Says Wind Mobile Backer

CBC | Posted 01.17.2012 | Canada Business

The billionaire financier behind the Wind Mobile cellular telephone company says he regrets getting involved in Canada in the first place....

BCE Profit Spikes 41.4 Per Cent

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.03.2012 | Canada Business

MONTREAL - BCE Inc. posted a 41.4 per cent jump in its third-quarter net income, helped by strong wireless results and by its recently re-acquired CTV...