The non conformer's Canadian Weblog

May 20, 2013

Major Canadian telecommunications firms still unacceptably tend to lie

smartphones
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There is also now  some seriously stiff competition out there when it comes to smartphones these days. Choosing your phone is becoming just about as tough as deciding between various telecommunications firms or between choosing to buy laptops or tablets. Samsung S4 or iPhone 5 or HTC One now  are the most popular, but still this doesn’t make even now  choosing between them an easy task.  Never take anything for granted, get it in writing first.
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The Major Canadian telecommunications firms even Bell and Rogers still unacceptably   tend to falsely lie to you when you  first approach them and you do  ask for their cost of your new  cellphone Monthly service? as I discovered last week firsthand too. For they generally hesitatingly too do not answer you directly as to what the costs. hidden costs too,  are but instead  like Bell does often they do falsely try to divert the answer by asking you rather as to what  want with to do with your cell phone, or how do you want to use it?
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Secondly  they still do not indicate generally upfront  all of the costs, sim card cost, installation fees, monthly costs, limitations, cancellation fees, contract terms, contract period,  and if you ask them for a list of all their plans and costs, detail available as  they seem not to have it.  Very much unlike the European services where costs are competitive and fully detailed. Verizon and Videotron seem to be an exception here.  
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Smartphones are phones that make life easy with their add-on features like camera, instant connect, video calling, email, social media, games, news, entertainment etc..  So firstly how is their battery lives? Can they be readily replaced, and where? The more expensive Apple iPhone5 has half the Battery life of the Samsung S4? wow.. in the long run it will costs you much more to own an Apple iPhone5..
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Some of the things you might also  want to review first include  Length-  size , Material-, outer cover ,looks and weight. Processor and RAM- ,  storage memory-expandable?. Battery Life-   2,600mAh or 1,440mAh  or?, Camera-  Amount of MP rear and MP front ? 
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do see also
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/canadas-monopolistic-self-serving-greedy-immoral-telecommunications-firms/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/the-best-iphone-to-buy-or-to-use/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/chilling-facts-about-cellphones-while-driving-insurance-rates/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/ontario-doctors-rightfully-oppose-cellphones-and-driving/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/is-there-realy-any-doubt-as-to-how-big-liars-our-telecomminications-firms-are/
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/bell-canada-included-now/
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March 27, 2013

Canada’s Perverse telecom giants

Rogers, one of the largest telecom companies in the country, has found a way to block our access to affordable mobile services. We’re now looking at a future where just three mobile telecom giants could control a monopoly of the Internet and phones services, holding back progress and innovation. This is totally unacceptable.

1. Canadians already do pay some of the highest cell phone fees and are forced into some of the worst contracts in the industrialized world.
2. Our broken cell phone market limits our use of mobile Internet technologies, and with it our creativity and entrepreneurship. Providing more choice for Canadians is crucial to innovation, and the success of our economy.
3. Canadians suffer from poor service because three big cell phone conglomerates control nearly 94% of the market
4. To make matters even worse, Rogers has come up with a plan to block our access to the few affordable mobile services that do exist by obtaining scarce wireless spectrum assets. Who next?
5. This will mean more control for Big Telecom and higher prices and less choice for you and your family.
6. The Rogers plan breaks Industry Canada rules because it grants the Big Telecom conglomerate access to wireless spectrum assets that were specifically set aside for new, more affordable telecom options for Canadians.
7. The Industry Minister, Christian Paradis, has the ability to enforce the government’s rules for cell phone service but so far he has falsely refused to do so.
8. Tens of thousands of Canadians have already told Industry Minister Paradis to stop Big Telecom from killing affordability in Canada’s mobile Internet and cell phone market  

http://www.demandchoice.ca/

September 14, 2012

IS THERE REALY ANY DOUBT AS TO HOW BIG LIARS OUR TELECOMMUNICATIONS FIRMS ARE?

add to that the oil companies…  

The Competition Bureau is suing Canada’s three biggest wireless carriers and  an industry association for allegedly misleading consumers about the cost of  premium texting services.

The watchdog accuses Bell (TSX:BCE), Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) and Telus (TSX:T),  along with the industry group that represents them, of enabling third parties to  sell trivia questions, ringtones and other services without adequately  disclosing the cost.

Those can cost up to $10 per transaction and up to $40 for a monthly  subscription over and above standard texting plans, the bureau said in a release  Friday.

“Our investigation revealed that consumers were under the false impression  that certain texts and apps were free,” said bureau commissioner Melanie  Aitken.

“Unfortunately, in far too many cases, consumers only became aware of  unexpected and unauthorized charges on their mobile phone bills.”

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/competition-bureau-sues-canada-s-3-wireless-giants

First   Check your phone bill: You’re probably being overcharged for data or anything else since  customers  are still too often ABUSED. Overall, the average overcharge can be at least  about 5-7% for most users and in the end it’s typically no fault of yours.  

Canada also already has bandwidth caps that are too low, and too expensive. When it comes to taking full advantage of the opportunities the Web opens up, Canadians are are being falsely priced gouged at every turn still by these clearly greedy, immoral Communication firms here.

There are many Canadian ISPs with download caps as low as 15GB for a month, with  excess billing charges if you burst through the 15GB limit.

The Netflix stock itself is still smarting 1 year after their severe service price hike. The unexpected twist that Netflix unveiled a year ago had triggered mass customer cancellations and a sell-off in its stock, which had wiped out more than $11 billion US in shareholder wealth. Netflix Inc. has bounced back this year to revive its subscriber growth. But even after a recent rally, its stock remains more than 70 per cent below its peak price of nearly $305 about a year ago, largely because of concerns about what Netflix has been spending to attract and retain subscribers. Many Canadian telecommunications firms have to do the same, pay continually very high amount of advertising to try to make up for the much too many customers they offend and lose http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/07/13/tech-netflix.html

While Canada’s major telecom companies — Rogers (TSX:RCI.B), Bell (TSX:BCE) and Telus  (TSX:T) — and consumer advocacy groups all support the idea of national  standards that would apply to wireless devices that alone will not deal with the much too many consumer complaints here too. Even Canada’s wireless services needs more serious and valid regulation since they seem to be robbing, price gouging  the citizens at every point they can, Canada’s service providers are not competitive enough,  and Canadians pay too much  compared to telecom users around the worl. Thier broadband caps to a ‘human rights violation’. Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos has blasted Canadian internet service providers (ISPs) for their low caps and excess usage charges . Sarandos minced no words when speaking of Canada’s ISPs, stating: “It’s almost a human rights violation, what they’re charging for internet access in Canada.”and he is right. Canada’s internet access  is”third world”, and  Netflix business in the country has suffered as a result too. Organizations like OpenMedia have been rightfuly  battling for Internet openness and fairness to consumers for years. And, of course, Bell, Telus  or Rogers have been named the worst throttler in the world. 10% of Canadians use Netflix But Netflix’s Ted Sarandos thinks that number would be a lot higher if it wasn’t for Canadian ISPs. So could likely many others.

Bell Canada, Bell Aliant and Télébec, dominant phone, pay phone providers throughout Ontario, Atlantic Canada and  Quebec, all have applied to double the cost of a pay phone call—from 50 cents to a dollar. The cost of using a prepaid debit card would rise to $2 a call. These prices were even previously doubled five years ago.  And where else can uou see such a great rater of price increases, inflation under any exuse now to? And is this still  a really big issue.. when you consider that the telecomunications firms are not only known big advertsing  liars, making loads of money in the processs but they falsely also tend to use a bait and switch policy.. they tend to advertise great, compartive rates but you likley will find next escalting, greedy, price gouging price increases on their servcies with plenty of extra charges,   known reasons why they are also hated so much by so many Canadians ..  and explaining  still simply why they are also making so much money and have become rich, and all this is never acceptable still. It is all sad when you do consider even that Canada drops entirely out of the top 10 when it comes to cellphones,  internet infrastructure. Canadian citizens not only do suffer from relatively slow Internet speeds but they are falsely price gouged for using the services too

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/greedy-immoral-bell-canada-lies-misleads-is-crooked/

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and where else do they also abuse us now????

April 17, 2012

The governments, Politicians cares about own good welfare firstly, the best joke of the year too

 

The governments, Politicians cares about own good welfare firstly, the best joke of the year too, in reality rather they are working realy hard everyday too looking first after themselves , and undeniably clearly living high on the hog at our expense, and that even includes too many of our bad civil and public servants too now.. and in the last 3 decades undeniably at least 50 percent of all new Canadian arrivals I met did, do abuse our generosity too, or commit social welfare frauds, or tax evasions, do not report all of their incomes..abuse our medicare systems… all just like too many Canadians also do..

Even the much too many still bogus refugees do receive better care than Canadian taxpayers because they cheat, lie, steal, commit tax evasions, abuse our goodness and it is still unacceptable.

And what about our elected political members, civil and public servants who too often have abused the tax payers generosity now as well, they also seem still to get away with it..
 
And all just as bad as the provinces, municipalities steal and abuse some of the federal money designated to help the citizens directly but they still did not fool me though too

 

Need we say more?

None of it is acceptable.

see http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/canadian-issues/

April 9, 2012

Canadian issues

OVER YEARS I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT IMPORTANT ISSUES ON BEHALF OF ALL CANADIANS, issues that the government and the news media have not done enough about, and issues that I have had firsthand related experiences, knowledge about including the undeniable reality that

1 We have much too many crooked pastors, bad church elders in the Canadian Churches, non profitable organization such as the Salvation Army included now, bad persons who abuse the flock and misuse the donations…  not acceptable

2: We have too many bad cops, bad police supervisors in Canada, RCMP now included who have wrongfully not been dismissed from their jobs and have been allowed to be unpunished.. my recommendation to deal with this tend to be the same firstly public exposure and next cut off their budgets significantly until they do something about it.

3: Our medicare and the related care of the elderly persons also still needs much significant improvement.. Now about the Shit disease found in hospitals too often still, , the new media covers up the story by using fancy Latin names, but it is the same sickness that kills patients while none falsely has yet to be punished for it.. yes we have too many bad Nurses, bad Doctor, bad supervisors in Canada, bad persons, money hungry or lazy persons who have wrongfully not been dismissed from their jobs and have been allowed to be unpunished.. my own recommendation to deal with this tend to be the same firstly public exposure and next cut off their budgets significantly until they do something about it… plus my own personal solution to the problem was to change doctors and even change hospitals…   not acceptable

4: Justice and the courts.. I do my best to stay out of courts, cause I cannot trust anyone not even the judges or the lawyers.. sadly it is a well know and unacceptable fact that many lawyers are just big liars, and the related law societies falsely allows the lawyers to lie on behalf of their clients, bad judges now included…  not acceptable

5: Bad politicians and bad political parties.. Face we falsely tend to continue to elect the liars.. Most people too readily accept liars and their lies, and the bigger the easier it seems too. Even the news medias do lie and spin the truth too often….  not acceptable

Just read a news story from different sources and you tend to get very different results.. one news media reported on a story that no one had died, and another read said seven had died and six other persons were missing for example..  not acceptable

6: No doubt about it even big unions succeed falsely in silencing the truth, and falsely hinder the punishment of the guilty persons.. not acceptable

7: Massive welfare, social assistance and tax evasion is a major unacceptable very active Canadian event practised by old Canadians and new Canadians and the pretentious governments realy do fail to address the issues effectively still…  not acceptable

8: How can I now also even  leave out all those price gouging, abusive corporations like the oil firms, the monoplistic and bad telecommunication firms such as Rogers, Bell, Virgin, and the greedy, self centered major food grocery stores, pharmacies  now too…  not acceptable

etc..,

see also

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/divorce-and-remarriage-in-the-christian-church/

 http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/it-is-a-very-low-proportion-of-medical-personnel-that-are-disciplined/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/c-difficile-the-shit-disease/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/health-employees-also-do-a-sloppy-job-still-not-just-the-bad-cops-bad-civil-and-public-servants/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/join-the-rcmp-and-have-sex-in-a-government-supplied-police-car-too/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/fire-the-useless-rcmp-supervsiors-and-rcmp-personnel-now-still/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/protection-of-seniors-it-took-decades-even-to-get-this-far/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/we-know-that-professionals-news-media-politicians-lie/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/sad-when-you-cannot-trust-anyone-in-governement-corporations-to-look-after-our-own-good-welfare/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/greedy-immoral-bell-canada-lies-misleads-is-crooked/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/once-again-the-big-firms-like-bell-tend-not-to-respect-the-laws/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/once-in-power-rules-and-money-saving-applies-only-to-the-opposition-members/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/living-high-on-the-hog-while-paid-by-the-taxpayers/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/anyone-doubt-the-oil-producers-and-sellers-are-greedy-hogs/

 

January 20, 2012

Once again the Big firms like Rogers tend not to respect the laws..

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/oppose-the-price-increases-lack-of-competition/

OTTAWA — Rogers Communications Inc., is breaking Canada’s Internet traffic management rules by deliberately slowing down certain online traffic, the country’s telecommunications regulator said Friday. In a letter to Rogers posted to its website Friday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions said it is “of the belief” that the telecom giant is in breach of the rules governing how Internet Service Providers control the flow of traffic on their networks. “Within two weeks, I look forward to you either presenting us with a rebuttal of our evidence or providing us with a plan to come into compliance with the (Telecommunications) Act,” writes Andrea Rosen, CRTC’s chief compliance and enforcement officer. “Failure to provide a meaningful rebuttal or an effective plan will result in my recommendation to Commissioners to hold a show-cause hearing.” http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/20/rogers-breaking-internet-rules-by-throttling-bandwidth-crtc/

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So who realy protects the Canadian citizens from the too often bad, immoral  firms in reality, now  holding the much too many crooked   firms to accountiablity but if there is any justice  it takes years to do so.. and for decades then not much good  tends to happen ..

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see also http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/once-again-the-big-firms-like-bell-tend-not-to-respect-the-laws/

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/greedy-immoral-bell-canada-lies-misleads-is-crooked/

January 14, 2012

OPPOSE THE PRICE INCREASES, LACK OF COMPETITION

Get ready for price increases, more bureaucratic red tape, and disrespectful customer service.

We have reports that the Big Three cell phone giants (who control roughly 94% of the market) are trying to trick the government into shutting out independent competitors. Some of them are going so far as to use high-priced lobbyists and a fake grassroots campaign1.

If the Big Three succeed, they will:

  • SqueezeCanadians into tighter contracts, with disrespectful customer service.
  • Squeezemore money out of your wallet every single month.
  • Squeeze independent providers out of the cell phone market.

In short, they will be the only game in town, and that means you and I will pay more for our cell phones. It will lock Canada behind the rest of the world on mobile communications, cripple essential innovation, limit social progress, and drain your wallet every month.

Sign the Stop The Squeeze petition before it’s too late!

Canadians already pay some of the highest cell phone fees in the free world2. This is a gut check for Canada. Will we let price-gouging big telecom companies squeeze every last penny out of our wallets before we stand up for ourselves? Will we let them slow-walk our economy into disaster?

 

We’ve heard that the Industry Minister is about to make a decision that could rubber stamp this cell phone nightmare into reality. Please join Canadians from across the country in signing this urgent petition to send him a message.

Let’s not put up with this anymore.

see also http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/once-again-the-big-firms-like-bell-tend-not-to-respect-the-laws/

December 22, 2011

Once again the Big firms like Bell tend not to respect the laws..

 

Rogers has promised to stop throttling internet traffic on its network by the end of this year, in response to an investigation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/03/tech-rogers-throttling.html

Rogers has promised to stop “throttling” internet traffic on its network by the end of this year, IF YOU BELEIVE THESE CONTINUAL LIARS WHO LIED THEY WERE NOT THROTTLING ALREADY.. AND ROGERS IS NOT T MUCH BETTER THAN BIG BAD BELL..

 

Bell Canada and the Evenko promotion company could face fines for violating lobbying rules while they negotiated for the rights to the city’s proposed $400 million arena. Quebec’s lobbying commissioner, Francois Casgrain, ruled this week that the two companies failed to register as lobbyists prior to the start of talks.  The contract eventually went to Quebecor Inc., owner of QMI Agency and the Sun Media chain. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/2011/12/22/19158326.html

 

see also  http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/crtc-rejects-bell-plan-for-wholesale-internet-billing/

November 16, 2011

CRTC rejects Bell plan for wholesale Internet billing, CRTC helps to rob consumers

Rogers has promised to stop throttling internet traffic on its network by the end of this year, in response to an investigation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/02/03/tech-rogers-throttling.html

Rogers has promised to stop “throttling” internet traffic on its network by the end of this year, IF YOU BELEIVE THESE CONTINUAL LIARS WHO LIED THEY WERE NOT THROTTLING ALREADY.. AND ROGERS IS NOT T MUCH BETTER THAN BIG BAD BELL..

With the Help of  the bad CRTC, now Bell and the majors, force a serious struggle even for survival for the independent Internet service providers who have already been struggling hard against giant telephone and cable companies. The CRTC was to improve competion in Canada and not rather to help the big firms to jack up the profits, prices, make loads more money  and to put the other smaller firms out of business 

TORONTO — The country’s independent Internet service providers were hit Tuesday by a regulatory ruling allowing major network owners such as BCE Inc. to charge “significantly” higher rates for wholesale Internet access. Though affecting less than 10% of Canadian retail Web users, the decision holds broader implications for competition in the sector if some smaller Internet Service Providers (ISPs) cannot afford the hikes and are squeezed out of the market. http://business.financialpost.com/2011/11/15/crtc-offers-compromise-plan-on-internet-billing/

                 
GATINEAU, Qc – The federal telecommunications regulator has rejected a controversial plan that would have allowed the big phone and cable companies to impose a usage-based billing model on Internet service resellers, a system that the Conservative government and many consumers had opposed.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s decision on Tuesday instead gives the companies a choice of either charging the smaller Internet providers a flat rate per user or selling the ISPs a specific amount of capacity on their networks.

“The net effect of it is that there will be no caps, no limitations, no metering of use for retail customers as a result of this CRTC decision,” CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein said Tuesday.

The issue also led to debate about how Canadians should be charged for Internet services and how much bandwidth they use.

But the CRTC focused only on the wholesale prices independent Internet providers pay for network use — not the monthly retail rates they charge their customers.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/crtc-decide-much-independent-internet-providers-pay-networks-090509901.html

It is about time the consumers are protected from greedy ma Bell too and we get real Competetion, close down the useless CRTC  too.

OTTAWA — The federal government says it will review this week’s decision by the country’s telecommunications regulator to allow large Internet providers to use new capacity-based billing for independent service providers. “We will study the CRTC’s decision carefully to ensure that it meets our objectives of encouraging competition and network investment and enabling consumer choice,” Industry Minister Christian Paradis said in a statement following Tuesday’s ruling. “Canadians have been very clear in expressing their concerns about earlier UBB decisions,” Paradis said. http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Government+study+CRTC+ruling+Internet+billing/5718561/story.html

-Pay more? You have got to be kidding me! Canadians are already living in the dark ages in terms of high speed ]service, which by the way we already pay way more for then pretty much every other country on this planet!

-How about…..why is Rogers now getting into BANKING….you think they are doing o.k.?

How about the fact that Bell media had exploded and is buying up huge chunks of our country??

How about the fact that the CRTC is holding open the door for these extortionists to bleed us for all that we can stand

-I believe in getting what you pay for but that’s never been the case with this industry.

It’s infuriating to think I’ll end up paying more for a service that  never delivered what was advertised in the first place. The worst part is, there is no other option.

-Congratulations CRTC on your major contribution to line the big corporate pockets & scewing us but good. Crooks in bed with crooks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-You didn’t actually think the CRTC was on the side of the avergae Canadian consumer did you??

-Disband the CRTC now and start with a leaner more competitive-friendly regulator that is not staffed with the same out of touch people it currently employs in Gatineau

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-rich-get-richer-bell-included/
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November 3, 2011

The Rich get richer, Bell included

OTTAWA – BCE Inc. on Thursday reported better-than-expected earnings as its new media unit give it a revenue boost, as did money charged for wireless data.The Montreal-based parent company of Bell Canada said net income was $642 million, or 83 cents a share, in the third quarter. That was up from $454 million, or 60 cents a share, a year earlier. “ Revenue was up 8.7 per cent to $4.9 billion. Much of the gains were driven by its new Bell Media unit, created this year following its acquisition of the CTV television network. Wireless revenue was up 6.1 per cent, which included 34.1 per cent more in wireless data sales. http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/reports+higher+than+expected+earnings/5650917/story.html

We can all easily remember when Bell was crying poverty, that it was not making enough money even with their IPS, broadband services so it has to resort to capping the users.. that did not stop Bell from generating larger profits next. TV, Cell Phones rip offs

Montreal Gazette: Bell and Videotron alone do not a competitive marketplace make  Only in Canada, would you have increased competition resulting in higher prices. That appears to be exactly what’s happening as Bell Canada Enterprises and Videotron battle for turf in cell phones, Internet and television service.

Let there be no doubts, Bell lies, steal, does everything it can to get richer and richer at the citizens consumers expense and it needs to be regulated for the good of all Canadians
“At the CRTC’s recent hearing on Internet metering, a lobbyist from Bell stood up before the Commission, looked each member in the eye, and suggested Canadians don’t mind a pay meter on their Internet use. I asked him afterwards how he could say such a thing—nearly half-a-million Canadians revolted against Internet price-gouging by signing the Stop The Meter petition this year. The Bell lobbyist responded with a simple statement: “It’s notpersonal.” I was stunned. Can you afford to have new fees added to your Internet bill each month? I know I can’t. Being price-gouged is personal, especially in these unstable economic times. We at OpenMedia.ca are cautiously optimistic that the CRTC will do the right thing and let indie ISPs provide unmetered Internet access. But we know one thing for sure: big phone and cable companies are working behind the scenes to undo the progress we’ve made. We can’t let them get away with this.”http://openmedia.ca/

do see http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/bell-canada-included-now/

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=thenonconformer+bell&b=&fr=ie8

October 25, 2011

Rogers throttling


Rogers throttling may breach net neutrality rules.. Rogers throttles file-sharing traffic from BitTorrent more than any other internet provider in North America and may be violating Canadian net neutrality guidelines, a U.S. researcher says. “So I think consumers would have a basis to complain and the CRTC would have a basis to act.” He suggested that perhaps the Canadian regulator is “a bit too cozy” with large Canadian telecommunications companies. “I think they do give too much weight to Bell Canada and some of these heavyweight operators,” he said. “I think that’s starting to change now that they’re starting to look more carefully at the use of this throttling.”

In Canada, all large ISPs have admitted to slowing down BitTorrent traffic, and some do so to a great extent. Since the start of the measurements Rogers has continuously throttled more than three-quarter of all BitTorrent traffic, and there are no signs that this will stop. During the first quarter of 2010 the two other large Canadian ISPs, Bell and Shaw, were throttling 16 and 14 percent respectively. Videotron on the other hand has never slowed down more than 7 percent, and only 3 percent during the last  http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-throttling-internet-providers-exposed-111020/


 CRTC’s internet traffic management or “net neutrality” rules.
Those rules state that technology to manage internet traffic:
Must be designed to address “a defined need and nothing more.”
Should be neither “unjustly discriminatory nor unduly preferential.”

Syracuse University information studies researcher Milton Mueller he thinks consumers should choose internet providers who use internet traffic management technology that targets points of congestion rather than singling out particular applications.

Mueller said his future research will examine whether other protocols besides BitTorrent are being throttled by ISPs and will look into the use of deep packet inspection for other purposes such as copyright policing, placing ads, government surveillance and censorship.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/25/technology-rogers-throttling-net-neutrality.html

Canadians—gamers in particular—have been furious with Rogers over its Internet throttling practices, which were recently exposed as being the worst in the entire world. Today, progress was made in the Canadian Gamers Organization’s battle against the Toronto-headquatered telco. The CGO sent a letter to the CRTC complaining that Rogers was violating Canada’s Internet openness rules. The CRTC has now stated that it will move the complaint into its enforcement division, implying further action and the high possibility of a penalty against Rogers. However, the CRTC is not able to punish companies financially, so the damage must be dealt in other ways“Earlier this week, Rogers told the CBC that it is within full compliance with CRTC policy and guidelines,” CGO co-founder Jason Koblovsky says. “We are now certain that’s not the case.”“In violating these rules, Rogers has shown that it values its own narrow commercial interests over that of its customers and Canada’s digital economy,” adds Steve Anderson, OpenMedia’s Executive Director. “Big Telecom is out of control and they need to be reined in before they damage our innovation economy further.” http://www.techvibes.com/blog/the-crtc-prepares-to-lay-down-the-law-on-the-worlds-worst-internet-throttler-2011-10-27
do see also

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/greedy-immoral-bell-canada-lies-misleads-is-crooked/

September 20, 2011

Bell Canada included now

Just cause it is a big corporation now  does still not mean it is well managed, or it  is moral, ethical! The bigger the firms too often means the bigger crimes going unpunished..

Bell’s new network too fast for many phones
Hamilton SpectatorSMARTPHONES Bell Mobility Inc. has launched a  super-fast wireless network in southern Ontario, but users will have to wait  until smartphones are available

Bell beats Rogers to the launchMontreal Gazette
Bell beats Rogers to Toronto with LTE
service
ITWorld
Canada

New wireless push all about CTV, Bell
says
Financial Post (blog)
The Wire Report- Canada NewsWire (press release)
all 66 news articles
 
NOW THERE IS AN UNACCEPTABLE AND AN UNDENIABLE GAP BETWEEN WHAT BELL AND MANY OTHERS INITIALLY ADVERTISE TO ALL PERSONS AND WHAT THEY DO NEXT ADVERTISE DELIVER SO THEY ARE UNACCEPTABLE GUILTY OF FALSE, MISLEADING ADVERTISINGS AND THUS NEED TO BE FULLY, CONTINUALLY PROSECUTED UNDER THE LAW BY THE GOVERNMENTS, FOR ALL THE CONSUMERS IN CANADA DO NEED TO BE PROTECTED FROM ANY OF THIS! THIS IS NOT BEING FULLY , ADEQUATELY DONE, EVEN BY THE CRTC!

It is an undeniable fact that Bell has to continually advertise, conduct a vast marketing campaign even to find new customers, and new ways to make money because it has a very poor customer services , it is very mismanaged, and very inefficient as well. Today anyone who uses Bell Canada’s services can readily known that Bell is an greedy, immoral firm that practices systematically lies, price gouging, false, misleading trade practices, restrictive trade practices, provides a very poor customer services and falsely tries to monopolizes it’s services and all Canadian Consumers need protection from Bell. The present consumer protection in Canada is not enough not even from the bad CRTC. Bell now falsely caps, blocks the ISP internet services so it can rather encourage all their customer to use their own services such as Bell Satellite TV with a wide selection of programming and receiver options, Fibe TV service is now available in an increasing number of neighborhoods. The Canadian Governments need to provide real on line regulation of all of the immoral, big Bell services on behalf of all Canadians.
Canada’s Internet infrastructure firstly is still is pathetic, compared to many other countries. We are all falsely overpriced for it too and are all being under serviced. The net infrastructure in Canada anyway was built with government money anyway. They, handed it over for free to these Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. these clearly crooks,robber-barons so that they could now even milk the consumer for every penny possible, without now even Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. these clear crooks actually expending any capital to increase their capacity or effective services. So next we all do DEMAND real action here from our governments on behalf of all Canadians now too It’s what we all pay taxes for the governments to protect us all from the bad firms of Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. and any of these crooks visible Lies from Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc., Their also now is an unacceptable corporate false advertising problem, for we can easily see and know that Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. they here are still mostly telling us all lies to justify still now their false robbery of all of the paid customers, consumers .Rogers acknowledged that equipment on its network used to slow down some kinds of internet traffic in order to prioritize time-sensitive applications such as internet voice calling and video streaming might affect other applications but still all these people paid for it..They falsely cap the ISP downloads to try to make more money form the cellphones usage.The CRTC should not be asking Rogers to fix the problem, they should be demanding that this be resolved now and to those affected should receive compensation until it is fixed. The ISP is here to provide bandwidth, and not to decide which traffic to throttle, filter and block. If their highly pre advertised as being superior, fully capable infrastructures now next cannot handle current demands, then they now next need to use their own funds they earn from their telecommunications monopoly to fix it, improve it. How can anyone now even buy their services now from Rogers or Bell when you know full well everything they do rob the consumers, stifle’s competition, the economy as and progress in the telecommunications industry all for their own selfish, greedy, immoral gains.

Traffic shaping is always still criminal even if Bell, Rogers or anyone else does it. . If the consumer is paying for bandwidth, how are the consumers falsely now even being made to pay for Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. these crooks to make judgments about the consumers using that paid bandwidth? Everyone always *should* be allocated the speed they pay for – and do let the consumers, customers use the network as to how they do see fit. I pay a lot of money each month for my unlimited megabits per second download and megabit per second upload. this is what I paid for. When my Internet service provider now next intentionally and even secretly too slows all this down, this is still called theft. It’s fraud. Even if I want to run a peer to peer usage.

The CRTC now realy should now prevent Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. these crooks from spying on/shaping/limiting the consumer’s traffic. Now also do add throttling to the criminal code even for the consumer fraud that it is. Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. lying charge a ton for high-speed, but it is only high speed service if it doesn’t hurt their own corporate economic interests This is still basically all unacceptable robbery. Consumers spend the most money for their PCs, pay for their games and software, pay for premium internet and then next get nothing better then a low speed. The Consumers are the people that buy all the services, buy all the new computers, gadgets and yet Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. try to punish those honest consumers who are now even helping the economy, allowing the government to receive more taxes and thus all these bad CEOs should be now still also be put in jail.

Why also now aren’t the CRTC paying full attention to absolutely ANYTHING going on regarding the absolute hatred many many people do now have for Rogers and Bell?

Rogers now has also been asked to fix game throttling problem Rogers says next it had made a few “innocent” mistakes. It is not funny but criminal . Funny how those “innocent” mistakes always seem to work for more money in Rogers’ favour. Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. these crooks doesn’t care, and they will drag this on for months (they already have, for about a year now). Their “solution” to the CRTC will be the same as last time. “We’ll have a fix within six months.” and six months later their “fix” won’t work Instead of “asking” Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. these crooks to fix the problem, the CRTC should be fining Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. $100,000 per day until it is fixed. Then a a fix would magically appear overnight.Still one week after toothless CRTC ruling, they WILL go back to throttling and use whatever excuse they can find in their policy of no accountability, Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. these crooks should all be forced to discount every single customer on their subscriber bases for throttling anything at all. It anyway all illegal, and since they’ve never shown any shred of proof that throttling is necessary, they should now also be fined for breach of contract and their false advertising.

Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc. these visible crooks continue to abuse the consumers only until they’re next shamed, forced to do what’s proper because firstly it’s not in their best economic interest to change. Deal with it ASAP

OTTAWA — Canada’s telecommunications useless regulator the CRTC has falsely now taken years to come up with real actions to deal with the Canada’s big bad communications firms that are unfairly, falsely slowing down the internet . The issue of their immoral traffic shaping has falsely even been going on now for years as customers play games , watch TV shows and movies, even all the while the immoral industry Telecommunications do continue to to economically gouge the customers for every kilobyte of band width and they continue to lie as to the reasons they need to do so. Real actions today is needed here and not mere CRTC false buck passing, useless public relationship statements.

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Bell has been falsely slowing my ISP, net services still even this week.. all the while while it lies to us all about the modern, great fast speed internet it provides.

“In a letter to the telecom giant, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission said the company’s own traffic management policy states that online games, such as World of Warcraft, should not be throttled or slowed down, and would only be affected if Rogers misclassifies the games and other peer-to-peer applications were running at the same time. Rogers now has until Sept. 27 to present a plan to the regulator to deal with the issue. “Commission staff considers that Rogers should address and resolve this misclassification problem,” the correspondence. While Internet service providers have said they need to manage online traffic to deal with network congestion during peak hours, the CRTC has instituted a policy stipulating that the noticeable degradation of time-sensitive Internet traffic requires prior commission approval under Canada’s Telecommunications Act. “We are currently getting reports from our members that Shaw customers are also affected … The CRTC has also been aware for quite some time that Bell Sympatico members have also experienced similar problems,” .”We will be asking for the CRTC to broaden its investigation to ensure that solutions presented by Rogers in this case are implemented on those ISPs, as well.””

Ontario’s and Quebec’s clearly corrupted Liberals and political leaders have also now  falsely now allowed Bell to abuse the Ontario and Quebec customers for years as well.

http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/the-telecommunication-giants-bell-rogers-included/

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