By Lee Rickwood
Rules to come will toughen up Canada’s anti-spam law even further: people who allege they received an unwanted commercial e-mail, one sent to them without their permission or consent, can sue.
By Ted Kritsonis
June 3 is an important day if you have a cell phone contract with any of the Big 3 carriers in Canada because the CRTC’s Wireless Code makes three-year plans redundant as of that date. If you’re currently on a three-year term that started before June 3, 2013, you can free yourself from your contract without paying a cancellation fee, opening up an opportunity to avoid a new contract altogether.
Whether you carry a cell phone or not, whether you wear the newest watch tech or not, public payphones have an on-going value, beyond being one of the last examples of shared social consciousness and communal convenience.
by Lee Rickwood
By Ted Kritsonis
Canadians who have long detested the way in which providers bundle channels and charge high prices for them could see major changes, now that the CRTC has begun untangling the web that has kept it all together.
By Ted Kritsonis
Starting January 23, 2015, Canadian consumers will no longer have to provide a 30-day notice to cancel wireless, cable or Internet service with their provider. This is certainly good news, but does it also provide an impetus for those providers to raise prices?
By Ted Kritsonis
Now that Rogers and Shaw have teamed up and unveiled a new streaming content platform they’re calling “Shomi”, it will inevitably be compared to Netflix, which already has a significant presence in Canada.
Without your explicit permission, commercial electronic messages cannot be sent to you. If you say, ‘Hey, telemarketers, don’t call me’, they should not call you. If you say, ‘I don’t want your e-mails’, they shouldn’t send you any.
by Lee Rickwood
The knock against VoIP once focused on performance and voice quality (oh, those echo-y conversations with long gaps and silent spaces), but those days are gone and things have very much improved.