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Duly Quoted: Steve Anderson

"We hope the CRTC takes Bell's submission as a sign that widespread usage-based billing is not an acceptable model for Internet pricing, and that it creates policy to support the affordable Internet."

The CRTC, UBB, and the Politics of Digital Space

Photo by marc falardeau from the Torontoist Flickr pool. Pat yourselves on the back, Canadians. Enjoy the victory—a great one, for sure—but don’t get complacent. This isn’t over yet. That was the message OpenMedia.ca was trying to get across this morning. The victory, for anyone currently living under a rock, is in the fight against [...]

Glad Hand: Release the Hounds!

Glad Hand is Torontoist’s political cartoon, created by Brett Lamb and appearing here every Friday.

2010 Villain: Bandwidth Caps

While it may seem a tad cliché to take a few whacks at Bell and Rogers, Canada’s foremost internet service providers, this year they deserve our scorn more than ever for one clear reason: bandwidth caps.

Glad Hand: Ads Gone Mad

Glad Hand is Torontoist’s political cartoon, created by Brett Lamb and appearing here every Friday.

The Best and Worst Things At TIFF 2010

Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist. TIFF 2010 is done. The celebrities have left; the red carpets have been rolled up; a few hundred people who work at theatres, in media, and in the film industry are catching up on their sleep; and those people who camp out on red carpets waiting for autographs have gone back [...]

CTVGlobemedia to Become CTV, Globemedia

Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) announced this morning that it would be taking full ownership of CTV, pending approval by federal regulators. The buyout, says the Globe, would effectively break up CTVGlobemedia, a corporate entity created in 2005 after BCE sold off part of their stake in the former Bell Globemedia—a media conglomerate that was in [...]

Heroes and Villains 2009: Villains

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2009—the very best and the very worst people, places, and things in and of Toronto over the past twelve months. This week, Torontoist unmasks our picks, complete with original art by our illustrators; starting next week, and continuing until the end of the [...]

Text Bomb

Photo by Marc Lostracco/Torontoist. When it comes to holding customers in seething contempt, few corporate entities do it with more blatancy than the Canadian telcos. And they know customers hate them—that’s why Koodo (a brand owned by Telus, though you’d never know it) mocks the industry’s despicable practices in their advertising. But when three biggies [...]

Canada’s ISPs Need a Good Throttling

Photo by –richelle– from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. For more than a year now, Canadian ISPs, net neutrality advocacy groups, and the CRTC have been battling over the issue of internet traffic management. ISPs, like Bell Canada and Rogers, argue that they need to manage their network traffic in order to stop BitTorrent users from [...]

CRTC and Canadian ISPs Stuck in a Dumb Pipe

Photo by ~EvidenceE~ from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Listening to the debate between the CRTC and Canada’s major internet service providers (news here, here, and here) during recent public hearings is a bit like overhearing a pair of Luddites discuss how the tiny people in computers make the World Wide Web work. ISPs such as [...]

Bell Canada Gets to The Source

Photo by christian jackson from the Torontoist Flickr Pool If you want to gauge the disconnect between business “experts” and regular, everyday consumers, read online coverage of Bell Canada’s announced purchase of 750 The Source (formerly Radio Shack) stores last Monday. This apparently “gutsy” move will get noticed, said Kaan Yigit, president of telecommunications consultancy [...]