Tag Archives: sms

Making sense of Bell’s twitter charges

Image via CrunchBase Update April 8th 2009: There’s a Bell autodialer reporting that Twitter charges will be refunded. I’ve been experimenting with Twitter‘s resumed SMS service in Canada. Right now it only works with Bell Mobility and, well, I’m a Bell subscriber. Twitter claims the service is free but I quickly heard reports of fifteen [...]

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 [...]