The normally useless and ineffective Industry Minister Jim Prentice is trying to show himself as being perhaps a bit useful for once. He is now talking tough about the intention of Telus and Bell charge for incoming text messages: “We don’t have a heavy regulatory burden on the cellular industry,” Mr. Prentice told reporters during […]
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Prentice Suggests Federal Regulations Coming If Telcos Don’t Drop Incoming Text Message Fees…. Whatever…
July 31, 2008Canada Gets A New Industry Minister…. Hope He’s Better Than The Last One…
October 30, 2008I’ve been very critical of the totally useless and completley impotent outgoing Industry Minister Jim Prentice in the past. Well, there’s a new Industry Minister in town and his name is Tony Clement. He got the job as part of Prime Minister Stephen Haprer’s cabinet shuffle that came out of the recent Canadian Election. Clement […]
Charlie Angus Calls Out Industry Minister In Open Letter
April 17, 2008NDP Member of Parliament Charlie Angus has clearly become sick of Industry Minister Jim Prentice doing nothing about the net neutrality issue. So he’s written an open letter to him asking him to do something sooner rather than later. In the letter, he writes among other things: “In order to ensure consumer confidence, it is […]
Tim Berners-Lee Talks About Net Neturality – Eveyone Listen Up!
April 21, 2008So you’re likely asking who is Tim Berners-Lee. The answer is that he’s one of the guys who invented the Internet by inventing the World Wide Web. So if he says something, you should listen. He’s talking about Net Neutrality on his blog and he’s got some very interesting things to say: “Yes, regulation to […]
Net Neutrality In Canada – The Debate Starts Now
March 28, 2008You can now add Rogers to the list of ISP’s who do stupid things. This morning they announced that so called “bandwidth hogs” who exceed their allotted limits on Rogers’s networks will face service-fee penalties of up to $5 a gigabyte, to a maximum of $25 a month. That on top of the fact that […]
Net Neutrality In Canada: The Government Ducks On Dealing With The Issue
April 3, 2008It seems that Canada’s Conservative Government has no interest in getting involved in the net neutrality debate. When asked a question about the issue in Parliament yesterday by NDP member Charlie Angus, Industry Minister Jim Prentice said: “At this point in time we will continue to leave the matter between consumers on the one hand […]
Net Neturality Protest Hits Ottawa…..
May 27, 2008Today’s the day for those who want freedom on the Internet to stand up and make your voice heard. CBCnews.ca has started to cover the Net Neutrality protest in Ottawa which is expected to attract 300 to 500 people between 11:30 and 1 today. Of course the fact that CBC is the only major media […]
Canadian Government Caught “Fluffing” Jim Prentice’s Wikipedia Entry….Is He That Lame?
June 5, 2008CBC News has revealed that Canada’s totally useless Industry Minister Jim Prentice has had his Wikipedia page “Fluffed” by someone in the Industry Ministry according to Michael Geist: “The edits, discovered by University of Ottawa internet law professor Michael Geist — a vocal opponent of Prentice’s pending copyright legislation — have been anonymously made over […]
Bell And Telus To Charge For Incoming Text Messages…. Even For Spam… WTF? [UPDATED]
July 9, 2008Clearly Bell and Telus haven’t been paying attention to the firestorm that erupted with Rogers and their iPhone pricing. These two companies have come up with the absolutely brilliant idea to charge $0.15 to RECEIVE text messages. Of course you can avoid that by subscribing to a text messaging bundle. Gee what a shock! Bell […]
FCC Votes For Net Neutrality…. But Don’t Celebrate Just Yet
February 27, 2015Here’s the good news. If you’re in the US, the FCC has voted 3-2 in terms of regulating the Internet like a utility such as your phone service. In effect, it is enforcing net neutrality. This is a very good thing as there will be no Internet “slow lanes” or “fast lanes” based on the […]
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