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jfmezei
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Re: Globe & Other 2011-44 (UBB) articles

Konrad von Finckenstein's speech to the annual conference of the International Institute of Communications, Canadian Chapter

Ottawa, Ontario

November 29, 2011

»www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/com20 ··· 1129.htm
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Cord cutting not happening in Canada (yet)

»business.financialpost.c ··· -remain/

(Financial post)
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Dispelling fears of foreign telecom ownership in Canada

Peter Nowak in Macleans
Dispelling fears of foreign telecom ownership in Canada

»www2.macleans.ca/2011/12 ··· -canada/

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Re: Globe & Other 2011-44 (UBB) articles

A bit OT, but see how they handle Telecom monoploy in China:

»news.xinhuanet.com/engli ··· 9134.htm
>Revenues from China Telecom's broadband business come to around 50 billion yuan ($7.9 billion) a year while those of China Unicom are nearly 30 billion yuan, Li said, adding that the two companies would face penalties of up to 10 percent of their annual business revenues if they were found guilty of monopolistic practices.

»news.xinhuanet.com/engli ··· 5213.htm
>The NDRC, the country's top economic planner, said on Nov. 9 that it was investigating the two companies over suspected monopolistic practices in the broadband access business.

>Li Qing, deputy head of the NDRC's price supervision and anti-monopoly department, said last month that China Telecom and China Unicom did not fully integrate their networks and, therefore, increased access costs and slowed down Internet speed

>During the next five years, China Telecom will lower broadband service charges by around 35 percent for the public, the online statement said.

Note the initial news was in Nov and it is only Dec when the monopolies cried uncle. We could use some arm twisting and competitions here in capitalistic Canada.
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Re: Dispelling fears of foreign telecom ownership in Canada

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Peter Nowak in Macleans
Dispelling fears of foreign telecom ownership in Canada

»www2.macleans.ca/2011/12 ··· -canada/

TJCook's comment is really amusing.

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Re: Globe & Other 2011-44 (UBB) articles

 
This thread seems relevant :

Discussion : »Study: Bandwidth hogs aren't responsible for peak congestion

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UBB poem by CRTC's Denton

»blog.cira.ca/2011/12/on- ··· billing/

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Re: Dispelling fears of foreign telecom ownership in Canada

»www2.macleans.ca/2011/12 ··· he-diff/

>CanCon, CommCon: what’s the diff?

Picture of the former East Germany shows:
>THE RATIO
> Music that was played on radio, in restaurants, at offices parties or dancing events was subject to a quota in the GDR: 60% of all songs played had to be composed by either GDR musicians or their *socialist neighbors*...

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No More THROTTLING

 
THIS needed mentioning :
said by resa1983:

Bell Confirms Discontinuing Throttling :

»business.financialpost.c ··· =twitter

Retail & Wholesale

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Bell's New Rate Proposals for IISPs

 
said by andyb:

This appears to be Bell's letter package to IISP's on new rates

Bell to IISPs I think :
»/r0/do ··· 0ATT.zip

 
And Bell's latest Tariff proposals as requested by the CRTC :

»/r0/do ··· Bell.zip

Also Bell's request for a delay in filing some things :

»Re: 2011-703 Filings

Vaxination's initial response to Bell Canada's request for extension :

»/r0/do ··· -703.pdf

CNOC's initial response to Bell Canada's request for extension :

»/r0/do ··· inal.pdf

And CRTC's initial response to Bell's request :
(Offering a 1-day window for everyone else to comment on Bell's request for delay before CRTC rules on it.)

»/r0/do ··· elay.pdf
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More Tariff filings from the other incumbents

 
Tariff filings, and also Commentaries regarding B#ELL's request to postpone the filing of some of their new tariffs which were originally reqested by the CRTC.

Most of that is in the next linked thread :

Discussion : »2011-703 Filings
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»www.cbc.ca/news/technolo ··· ies.html

Top tech stories in 2011.
quote:
But in Canada, the biggest tech story of the year was the controversy over usage-based internet billing, as judged by viewers' interest on CBCNews.ca.

It was a drama that quickly ramped up from where it left off in 2010, when the CRTC ruled that Bell could impose usage-based caps on small internet providers.

quote:
January

Internet download limits slashed for many
5 technologies to watch at CES
CRTC's internet billing decision appealed
Reverse internet billing decision, Liberals say
Internet usage costs to rise

Disclaimer: It is a silent victory for me to have my petition to GiC mentioned again and a pointer to the CBC article announcing my petition being part of the top tech stories of 2011.

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A bit OT, but here are rumors with the "new" mobile companies.

»www.bloomberg.com/news/2 ··· ale.html

>Globalive Communications Corp., a two-year-old Canadian wireless carrier, is in talks to buy Mobilicity, adding a competitor to take on larger rivals BCE Inc. (BCE) and Rogers Communications Inc., according to a person familiar with the discussions.

>Cairo-based Orascom completed a $6.5 billion merger with VimpelCom in April to create the world’s sixth-biggest mobile phone operator. Orascom began talks with Public Mobile, another new Canadian entrant, in late 2010 about merging with Globalive, a second person said.

So nothing official and only speculations...
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How Bell will charge you for using Netflix

»www2.macleans.ca/2011/12 ··· netflix/
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Good article about Québécor and how Pelado pretends to not take political sides.

»www.theglobeandmail.com/ ··· 2282757/

Some interesting things:

Brian Mulroney is on the Board.
Francoise Bertrand, a former CRTC chairman is chairman. (she is one who had publcly supported UBB)

The thick plottens !

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said by jfmezei:

Good article about Québécor and how Pelado pretends to not take political sides.

»www.theglobeandmail.com/ ··· 2282757/

Some interesting things:

Brian Mulroney is on the Board.
Francoise Bertrand, a former CRTC chairman is chairman.

The thick plottens !

Seriously. That article turned my stomach.

Mike

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said by dillyhammer:

Seriously. That article turned my stomach.

Mike

No fuckin' kidding... I made it to the fifth line and quickly decided I didn't feel like thinking about this over the x-mas holidays.


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NEW Pricing at TSI !

 
Coming to a webpage or eMailbox near YOU !

»TekSavvy pricing update
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NEW Pricing at TSI !

Here are some new links to the TSI site :

English :
»www.teksavvy.com/en/newp ··· ion.html
»www.teksavvy.com/en/newp ··· ice.html

Francais :
»www.teksavvy.com/fr/newp ··· nfr.html
»www.teksavvy.com/fr/newp ··· efr.html
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B$ELL Screws Retail Subscribers Yet Again

 
This Just In : Shares of the company who makes Preparation 'H' rose sharply this morning on the news.

That's right, further incest at B$ELL.

As this article by DSLR Karl states, Bell's own retail customers get shafted once more :

»Bell Lowers Caps

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention, Bell has never backed away from UBB, at least not insofar as their residential RETAIL market sector goes.
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eBox Also Announces New Rates Announcement

 
Their new rates, links, & discussion are to take place in THIS thread :

»Electronic Box pricing for 2012
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Other Discussions about New Rates, etc

 
»New retail pricing schemes

»TekSavvy pricing update

This relates to subscribers of both Bell's Retail dividsion AND of Indie ISPs :
»Bell cuts throttling... due to success of UBB
(The 'success' of the UBB has obviously been in application of it to B$ELL'S Retail subscribers.)

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Teksavvy makes the Globe as first Indie to raise prices

»www.theglobeandmail.com/ ··· 2291341/
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Not On topic but good none theless

Piracy in the House of Commons
»www.pirateparty.ca/about ··· -commons

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said by andyb:

Teksavvy makes the Globe as first Indie to raise prices

»www.theglobeandmail.com/ ··· 2291341/

 
I've been Ninja'd !

But there will be more from where THAT came....

Here's Karl's piece :
»TekSavvy Announces Price Hikes [35] comments
There, take THAT !
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Openmedia.ca posted this. »openmedia.ca/news/pro-in ··· s-prices

And the related form that sends a short uneditable message to some bribed people who don't give a shit. »openmedia.ca/Hike

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said by grunze510:

Openmedia.ca posted this. »openmedia.ca/news/pro-in ··· s-prices

 
Ninja'd AGAIN !

Youse guys are plitty fast !
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Financial post article about the issue. Similar to the globe article. Talks about that unmentionable ISP.

»business.financialpost.c ··· -ruling/

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»www.montrealgazette.com/ ··· ory.html

>A request from the Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. (CNOC), a trade group representing dozens of smaller ISPs, was filed Wednesday with regulatory authorities asking that a Nov. 15 decision allowing higher rates based on "capacity" be revisited, with an aim to lowering fees that smaller providers will have to start paying by Feb. 1.
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On jfmezei's link:

>Update: A spokesperson for CNOC clarified that a request for a price review is not part of the complaint filed Wednesday. Only requests about the new model’s implementation were made in the submission. CNOC is considering a formal request to address pricing, the person said.

That is not in my Montreal Gazette one.