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Canadians continue to express their outrage at the price-gouging and lack of choice in Canada’s cell phone market. Thousands of Canadians have taken action already, but we need your help…
Cell Phone Squeeze
Why Your High Cell Phone Bills Have Nothing To Do With The Size of Canada
Canada’s broken cell phone market has come under a lot of public scrutiny of late, with the CRTC trying to establish a set of minimum standards for wireless providers; the…
Canadians demand choice in their local communities
Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word about Canadians’ real experiences in our broken cell phone market and our citizen-powered action plan to fix it. Check out…
Pressure from Canadians is starting to have an effect: Paradis signals discomfort with the Shaw-Rogers backroom deal
Today, on a call with reporters, Industry Minister Christian Paradis signalled that he may take a stand to ensure we don’t see even less choice in Canada’s already uncompetitive and…
Globe and Mail: Why your cell phone bill will likely go up
Last week we heard that all three of our independent cell phone companies may be taken over by Big Telecom. If this happens, this will mean less choice for Canadians…
How Telus lost its credibility.
Co-authored by Catherine Hart Canadians and even the CRTC know our cell phone market is broken. Canadians pay some of the highest prices for some of the worst service in…
Mythbusting Big Telecom Talking Points
Check it out as wireless industry expert Peter Nowak takes another run at “debunking, yet again, another set of wireless myths” from Big Telecom about the Canadian cell phone market.…
Canadians Deserve Better: Your MP Responses to the Cell Phone Report
The government is on the defensive. After we released our community-powered report on Canada’s cell phone market1 you’ve been sending it to your MPs, calling for their support.2 While MPs…
Canadians respond to Big Telecom spin
To help us counter a campaign by Big Telecom lobbyists to suppress our voices and paint a rosy picture of our dysfunctional telecom market, we asked the pro-Internet community to…
Tired of being price-gouged?
We recently asked Canadians what frustrated them about their cell phone provider and service. We received responses ranging from high prices, to customer service, to bad coverage, and more. Help…
Have you seen this honest Internet company?
A satirical video from Extremely Decent Films about “honesty” in the telecommunications industry went viral this weekend. A number of our community members took a stand and shared the video…
Larger web page sizes = more data eaten = higher prices for Canadians.
With limited data allowances and high data prices from Big Telecom, we are seeing a “user unfriendly” increase in the amount of data required to load mobile web pages. Canadians…
How do you feel when you get your cell phone bill?
Big Telecom have been telling us that Canadians are happy with the prices and services being offered. Your stories however, have shown us a very different reality. Share this image…
Rules to protect Canadian cell phone users coming soon
The CRTC is currently reviewing the national cell phone rules draft, and we should be seeing results within the coming months. Provincial cell phone rules are in place, but to…
Push Back in the Media | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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With your help, we have a tool to fight back
Our citizen-powered study made headlines all over the country,1 but now Big Telecom is trying to change the story. With your contributions, we have created a tool to fight back,…
A consumer battle guide to cell phone mistreatment.
Canadians sent us their cell phone horror stories, and with them, we’ve created a road map to fix our cell phone market and helped to create a tool kit to…
Will one of Canada’s few independent cell phone providers be gobbled up by Big Telecom?
WIND Mobile, Canada’s largest independent cell phone provider, is being put up for sale. This could very well mean less choice in Canada’s cell phone market – especially if WIND…
Price-Gouged Canadian Dad Turns Advocate, Creates Toolkit to Help Citizens Push Back Against Cell Phone Companies
CPHSReport_Share-Fist_130306.png After incurring $22K charge, BC’s Matt Buie is working to ensure others don’t live out his cell phone horror story March 22, 2013 – Matt Buie, a Financial Planner…
Big Telecom continues to say the Canadian cell phone market is just fine – experts disagree.
There are things wrong in Canada’s cell phone market, and our report—using your lived experiences and the most recent and available data—is our effort to show what exactly is wrong…