DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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This JUST In - BIG NEWS ITEM !
START is LIVE in COGECO-Land !
YEP, UP and RUNNING !
»Start Communications in Cogecoland - Live, with a Review!
Congrats to START on this Breakthrough !
Mirko, is that a bead of perspiration on your brow - a worried look in your eye ?  |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Re: Globe & Other 2011-44 (UBB) articles said by Ott_Cable :....Bell Canada and subsidiary Bell Aliant are looking to double the cash cost of making a local payphone call to $1....
Now THAT smells like UBB to ME !
Try to get someone else off a payphone at a Buck a Call. (RIP Don Adams)
"NO, gotta talk longer - haven't gotten my money's worth yet...."
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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BTW,,,,
»Looks like R0cky is back!
I would take that as positive news. 
'Nuff Said. |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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CNOC R&V Deadline Approaches
DSLR discussion :
»Re: CNOC R&V of CRTC 2011-703 and CRTC 2011-704
CRTC website file page :
»www.crtc.gc.ca/Part1/eng/2012/86···2324.htm |
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Telephone Do Not Call List gets stop-gap funding Not quite UBB, but CRTC related:
»www.theglobeandmail.com/report-o···2391917/ "Telephone Do Not Call List gets stop-gap funding"
>The federal government is throwing a financial lifeline to the national Do Not Call List.
>This week, it announced that it had taken enforcement action against 85 companies for breaking the telemarketing rules following a five-month investigation.
>Out of that total, the CRTC issued citations to 74 companies that had failed to register with the DNCL operator or subscribe to the list. It also issued notices of violation to 11 others for more serious issues, while also levying fines totalling $41,000.
Averaging over 11 companies, the fine is only $3727 per company. $41K is barely enough to pay for the loaded labor rate for one person doing this for 5 months assuming CRTC actually get to keep the fine.
May be they should make the effort self sustaining. i.e. make it rely on fines and subscription to the DNCL to fund itself. That way, they might actually have realistic fines the guilty companies instead of patting them softly on the heads. |
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| More CRTC news:
»www.theglobeandmail.com/report-o···=2392076
"CRTC weighs national code for wireless firms"
>Its overarching goal is to determine whether this country’s mobile market has changed enough for it to resume active regulation of the terms and conditions for wireless service contracts – a practice that it largely abandoned almost 20 years ago. A decision is expected later this year.
>In February, Telus Corp. (T-T58.350.250.43%) asked the CRTC to hold a public consultation and determine what national standards should apply to wireless contracts to improve transparency.
>That was followed by a similar request by Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI.B-T39.930.280.71%) last month. As part of its application, Rogers took the extra step of providing a draft consumer code that it hopes will serve as a starting point for discussion. |
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| This one is OT, but I think online privacy is important: »cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2012/···621.html
"Toronto cops threw the (Face)book at her"
>TORONTO - Artist Lizz Aston used to think her picture on Facebook helped business until Toronto Police used it as an online suspect lineup.
>"I was recently accused of assault and arrested based on a thumbnail photo from my profile pic on Facebook," she wrote on the very same Facebook page. "Please let this be an eye opener."
>When she called an officer told her "there was an altercation at the bar, two girls got in a fight and the girl who was assaulted has pointed you out as being her assaulter through a photo on Facebook."
>Trusting the system she went in Jan. 7 and explained "I wasn't even there and showed her old text messages on my phone to prove it."
>Aston said, the officer "read me my rights. I was searched, finger printed and processed." |
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kudos:22 | For those interested in the "transparency" issue of costing.
Konrad von Finckenstein provides a good overview of the CRTC's confidentiality issues and how it relates to access to information.
This was at the ethics committee.
»www.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness···41&Ses=1
The video is available on video
Meeting 8
October 18, 2011 8:49 a.m. - 10:49 a.m. (EDT)
Centre Block, Room: 237-C |
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jfmezeiPremium
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kudos:22 | April 4th 2012 marked the 4th anniversary of my first submission to the CRTC on the internet access. (throttling). It was also the start of the throttling fight at the CRTC.
»www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2008/···5153.htm
It's been hell. I've made ennemies and friends. Blood has been shed, insults flung about. But went from being an unkown to filing a petition to governor in council and causing headaches to a lot of people because of that
The Bell letter that confirmed the throttling:
 Customer let···ar28.pdf 26462 bytes
The highly illegal pictures from inside the INDU hearing (pictures are strictly verboten at committee hearings unless you are accredited journalist, but we didn't know that when we were there)
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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♫ MEM-O-RIES.... ♬ [Think Streisand]
Nice haircuts though.
(Mine is shiny on the top, BTW) |
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Nice! |
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said by jfmezei:The highly illegal pictures from inside the INDU hearing (pictures are strictly verboten at committee hearings unless you are accredited journalist, but we didn't know that when we were there) You've probably written more on this issue than any newspaper journalist has, so I think you can be considered a journalist here, and therefore the pics are nice and legal. |
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said by jfmezei:It's been hell. I've made ennemies and friends. Blood has been shed, insults flung about. But went from being an unkown to filing a petition to governor in council and causing headaches to a lot of people because of that It's amazing what you've managed to accomplish JF, as an individual.
You may have future in the regulatory industry just yet, let's just hope it's for the good side. 
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Re: Globe & Other 2011-44 (UBB) articles
Hmmmm....
I wonder what new (or old) BS has B$ELL been trying to slip by us (again) while DSLR was in limbo ? |
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end this thread globe goes pay only and should suffer no free advertising |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Yeah, I just heard about that on CBC TV news, streamed for free across my Internet feed.
But I cannot change the name of the thread, and the thread still serves a useful purpose, so let's let it be. |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Not much to report right now.
It's almost summertime.
UBB is still alive and well in most Canadian incumbent ISPs' retail packages.
New Indie ISP service offerings thru more of the CABLE providers such as Cogeco, by companies such as START Communcations, have widened the choices for Ontario consumers, in regard to avoiding unfair rates of UBB and tiny monthly usage caps, as well as letting more of us escape the clutches of some of the other ridiculous policies and fees which Bell is still allowed to shove down our throats using the DSL Indie ISPs' arms.
DSLR has recovered from their data centre failure and has implemented a new foolproof backup regimen.
JF is still taking his long bike ride in the snow, regarding posting here....
Another Jean has become the new CRTC chairperson.
FaceBORK's IPO has fizzled, but they are still able to afford StarBucks - the COMPANY - not just the coffee.
Bell is considering buying RIM. - And why not ? - they own someone in almost every other rung of the ladder. |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Canada is now 145 years old !
Many BBQ's are a-cookin', and our Ontario heatwave has beaten back most of the mosquitoes.
JF is tweeting up a storm, but is still MIA from here.
RIM is considering changing its name to GRIM, to match its outlook.
GOUGEco just raised some of their rates this month, good capitalists that they still are.
'The Stones' turned 50 this week.
Today's high in Ottawa has been projected last night by CBC to be 35c.
It must be Miller Time.
Cheers, everyone !
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Telus says "BITE ME !"
Wind says "OK, but be warned - Our regulatory and legal department has very sharp teeth !"
»Wind Mobile wants CRTC hearing over Telus ownership |
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2 edits | Re: Telus says BITE ME ! OK?
LOL I just saw your subject line in my post history...
now I get it...
(Monday morning brain gulag seems a little worse on pseudo-Mondays... evidently shown by my bad tag-fu as well)
I think it's more like: "Now that we're here to stay, we're gonna make you pay for trying to keep us out" -- and good hunting to them, I say.
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