Archive for September, 2008

Plenty of telecom issues but no debate near the election

photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives The CBC has managed to round up most of the telecom issues in one post about the election. Among them are the new fees for incoming SMS messages, throttling of third party DSL ISPs, and the lack of competition on the wireless front. The last good point that they made [...]

MP of Industry replied to me about the iPhone, but I didn’t write to him

I don’t recall writing to the Minister of Industry about the iPhone plan, but I think I signed an online petition to him a while back. I’m surprised I got this reply. Thank you for your e-mail regarding rate plans proposed by Rogers for iPhone services.As Canada’s wireless market has been deregulated since the mid [...]

Got my Akoha beta invite!

photo credit: sfllaw I heard that Akoha had recently given a demo to a select few. That happened back on August 29th. I did not expect to get an email from them already about the beta. I’m eager to start! For those who don’t know, Akoha is an online and offline reputation based game, and [...]

Received my reply from Minister of Industry Jim Prentice

I’m surprised this letter took so long to get out. Essentially, Mr. Prentice thinks that the CRTC will deal with it, and complaints ought to be directed to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services or the CRTC itself. There’s no mention of either of the net neutrality bills. The letter follows: Thank you for [...]