The Red Dot Campaign has been around for a while and has been pretty successful in helping Canadians get rid of junk mail. Michael Geist has set up an equivalent for telemarketers. iOptOut is like the American Do Not Call Registry. Unfortunately I feel a bit of a disconnect here. iOptOut will be useful for [...]
I just discovered an ad for a cool callback server with a twist I haven’t seen before. I’ve used three styles of callback servers so far. One I’d have to send a SMS containing the number I wanted to connect to, the other I’d have to dial the number when I was called back. Then [...]
The first phone with OpenMoko support, FIC Neo 1973, can now be bought by anyone with a credit card. It’s $300 US for the basic kit which is pretty well stocked. It includes the stylus, headset, carrying pouch, a half gig memory card, lanyard and the data cable. The $450 developer kit stuffs all that [...]
Wow. Looks like we’ll have a duopoly on cellular networks if this merger goes through, but hey, it’s all Canadian! All hail our CDMA overlord Belus! The Star has the story. Telus is wary of the merger not being allowed. … Vancouver-based Telus, the country’s second-biggest phone company, confirmed Thursday it has entered into a [...]
This morning I saw a full page ad for www.wirelessfuture.ca in 24. I’ve never seen this one before. It looks like the site was recently created by a group that’s made up of Videotron, Quebecor, mipps and MTS AllStream. I’ve included a snapshot of the ad from a PDF available on the 24 website, which [...]
I learned a small lesson in humility today. I was load testing a telecom application and something went wrong. Part of the test was simulating a few dozen calls per second passed through a MSC. All of a sudden my call rate drops to zero. Well, I’ll dump all the logs I possibly can, restart [...]
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