Tag: Rogers
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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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Happy Holidays from The Dads
Those in the know understand the draw of the East End of Long Island. The Hamptons, sitting on the South Fork of the island, are a group of hamlets, villages and towns lying along the Atlantic Ocean. The area is a perpetual playground for the rich and famous, and for city dwellers who appreciate a…
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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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Is RIM Playing the Bully Card in Order to Catch Up?
RIM has been putting an enormous amount of pressure on carriers to approve the upcoming BlackBerry smartphones like the BlackBerry Bold 9900 — phones that have to hold RIM over until its next-generation platform launch in 2012 — and that certain carriers will be approving the devices, “no matter what — with bugs and problems.”…
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Hey Canucks! How Is Your iOS4 Upgrade Going?
To be quite honest, the results are a little mixed here in the Wendyhouse… Steve McGoo upgraded his Rogers phone without any incident and managed to get his Gmail up and running with any issues. However, I have not been having too much luck.
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Two weeks with an LG Xenon – Part ONE
It’s been two weeks now that I’ve given up the ‘ol Blackberry 7130g that I picked up almost four years ago and turned on a brand spankin’ new LG GR501 Xenon that runs on Bell’s brand spankin’ new HSPA network! If you recall it was not too long ago that I was agonizing over which…
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The REAL Canuck Telco Landscape
I did not want to venture in the waters surrounding the launch of the Wind’s network and their new airtime plans, however as usual, my good friend and colleague, Mr Schultzter has dragged me into the lake kicking and screaming. Unfortunately, his extensive Economic training is preventing him from doing any real math and showing…