Tag: Bell
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What’s the Best Cell Phone Plan for Travelling in the U.S.
I travel to the USA several times a year – to go camping, sightseeing, and of course shopping! Many of us do. And when we go we take our mobile phones with us. But even though using your Canadian mobile phone in the USA is as easy as it is when you’re on home soil;…
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CRTC announces Proceeding to establish a mandatory code for mobile wireless services
The CRTC has just announced a Proceeding to establish a mandatory code for mobile wireless services. In theory this is a great move. In reality this is lip-service to a disillusioned and misguided public. The reality is that his will not lead to any meaningful change in Canada’s wireless landscape, because: The telcos will voluntarily…
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Competition best for wireless industry? Maybe not
So apparently the finally tally is we need competition, but not too much. Unfortunately Canada doesn’t have enough, we’re at least one national player too short. Not all our providers are studied in this report, and it pre-dates our new entrants arrival on the scene. But it does make a very good case for the…
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Data Congestion Warnings for 2012
In fact, according to a new report from network management firm Arieso, iPhone 4S owners use twice as much data as their iPhone 4-using brethren, and nearly three times as much as iPhone 3G users. The data is part of an overall trend of growing data usage among smartphone owners, with Arieso warning that data…
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Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones
Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…
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Michael Geist on RIM’s Woes and The Canadian Telecom Policy
This is an excellent piece from one of Canada’s premier columnist on technology law issues and law professor at the University of Ottawa. this particular article takes up the argument that the Canadian Government should step in to assist RIM in order to avoid another “Nortel” disaster. We have already spoken up about this aid…
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Bell: We didn’t do it and we won’t do it again!
Bell stated that they fundamentally disagree with the outcome but “has decided to immediately resolve the issue and move forward by paying”. Yup, that sure sounds like they are standing their ground. “We did nothing wrong, now here is some money, shut up and go away!” via Competition Bureau fines Bell $10 million for misleading…
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DadCast Special Edition I • Le Café Balado
This special French edition of the DadCast was recorded on Tuesday November 9th TWENTY TEN with Alexis Corneiller of Montreal’s Ile Sans Fils project and stems from some discussions we were having on Twitter about the idea of a PodCast Café. Our Regular English language podcast will be back with episode 31 but for now…
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Bell Canada Gives The Great White Shaft to Data Users
Bell Canada to charge $10 tariff for HSPA+ access? « Boy Genius Report: “BGR has just obtained a memo that indicates Bell customers will have to fork over a $10 per month premium for access to the company’s HSPA+ wireless network.” This story really pissed me off this morning, especially after reading last week’s report…