Web on mobile set to explode

I saw this short article on the emarketer website. It is a big indication of where the ‘web’ is expanding into. For us in Australia, we are still being retarded by high data charges imposed by the telcos. No doubt this will change in time. If you have business with...

Who Benefits From Telco Deregulation

"The point is that prices for Canadian telecom services are high by American standards and the changes announced by the government are unlikely to put a smile on your face when you rip open the phone bill. If prices were set to plunge, you wouldn't see the phone company...

Income Trust Payback

"Industry Minister Maxime Bernier's autocratic decision to politically interfere directly in a CRTC decision, regarding eliminating the price caps that the two Big Telco Monopolies can charge, Telus and Bell. How does this increase competition?"

Pro Monopoly Tories

"Conservatives overrule CRTC on regulation of internet phones"

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Tortoise or Turtle

"The U.S. contines to refuse to consider handing over control of the Internet to a UN style body like the International Telecommunications Union, because it might be too slow to implement rules and technology. Well that's the excuse, the reality is of course the Americans...

Cap't Crunch

"Before there were hackers there were technology gurrellias like Cap't Crunch (aka John Draper)who invented the Blue Box, which was follwed by the black box and red box. Simple electronic beepers that when sent through the primitive switching technology of the seventies Tele...

The Phoney Debate On Net Neutrality

"It never was about Net neutrality boys and girls. It was about gaining more money, cash to be able to buy up the competition, and overcharging for broad band is the way to get that cash. In the meantime how much will Nortel go for, and will Canadians even care. Doubtful...

Google threatens telcos with antitrust action

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Telcos Limit Internet Freedom

"This is a damn good reason why the United States should not have proprietary control over the Internet.Faced with the challenge by the big Telcos, ATT has returned like the ghost of Trusts past, net neutrality has been shot down in favour of the corporate Telco oligopolies."