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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'bell'

May 16, 2008

Like it or not, big bad Rogers will be the exclusive provider of Apple's beautiful and magnificent and world-changing iPhone, and as each week goes by it's getting harder and harder to mitigate disgust for the former with adoration for the latter. It was nice, then, to find out that Bell turned their Norm MacDonald–voiced beaver into something truly great: a great big middle finger to Rogers (and Apple). Bell's ad in this week's NOW......

Continue Reading "Leave it to Beaver"

April 29, 2008

Now, normally our coverage of anything Rogers is best downed with a tall glass of Haterade, but Toronto's technophiles and status-hungry business execs have reason to give thanks today to the Evil Empire, for the most anticipated gadget of the last gazillion years is to finally land in our fair city: Apple's iPhone. In a curt press release this morning, Rogers announced that a deal had been conclusively inked with Apple and the device......

Continue Reading "iPhone To Appear To The Faithful"

April 18, 2008

Latest transit update from the Torontoist Action News Team Live Info Centre, Your Only Source For All TTC Strike News: if you're a regular TTC rider, GO Transit doesn't want you. A spokesperson for GO has advised that that they're already operating at capacity with their regular passenger load, and don't plan to run any additional buses or trains in the event of a TTC strike. Speaking from Chongqing, China, Mayor David Miller said......

Continue Reading "Strike Still Looming, Housing Not Booming, Bell Web Users Not Zooming"

March 26, 2008

The day after the CBC announced its plans to release the finale of Canada's Next Great Prime Minister through BitTorrent, Bell Canada has moved quietly to throttle its services—including peer-to-peer filesharing—outraging both its customers and wholesale clients. Among the affected is TekSavvy, a family-run Internet Service Provider based in Chatham with service areas in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia. Describing its people-first approach as "revolutionary," Broadband Reports profiled TekSavvy as the top North......

Continue Reading "Bell Puts The Squeeze On ISPs"

March 17, 2008

We wouldn't suggest for a second that the competition between Bell and Rogers has gotten so fierce that Rogers has resorted to cutting its rival's cables to pick up new subscribers. We're sure it was just an accident. An accident that happened often enough to prompt someone to tape this note to a utility box in front of an East York house. Doesn't Rogers call before they dig? Tellingly, Rogers is one of the......

Continue Reading "Call Before You Dig. This Means You, Rogers"

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