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Squeezing blood from a stone: why the CRTC fails Canadians
The CRTC is fixated on a telecom competition strategy that cannot work.
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What’s an MVNO? an OpenMedia FAQ
Questions and answers on how MVNOs would fix Canada’s broken telecom market
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YOU ARE HERE 📍: What’s happening in the fight for fair Internet wholesale rates
Your voice, delivered! On June 22, we submitted YOUR input directly to the CRTC in their historic review of Internet wholesale rates.
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Guest Blog: The crisis in mobile competition
This blog is written by one of our community members, Kevin Hudes, who is a PhD student at Toronto Metropolitan University in the Communication and Culture program. His work centers around how competition can encourage more affordable telecommunications services in Canada.
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Your voice, DELIVERED: OpenMedia community urges CRTC to dethrone Big Telecom’s fibre monopoly!
We submitted input from nearly 4,500 people to the CRTC, urging the Commission to force Big Telecom to provide fibre wholesale access to indie ISPs!
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Wholesale and fibre explained
Wholesale rates and fibre connection play an integral role in our telecom industry. Here's what you need to know.
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Your voice, DELIVERED: 23,000+ action takers speak out against monopolies!
Together with Ekō, the OpenMedia community is calling out Canada’s monopolies.
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OpenMedia calls on new chair of CRTC to prioritize competition, affordability, and everyday people’s needs
Canada’s Internet is dangerously adrift. OpenMedia’s letter to new CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides urges her to put us back on track.
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Guest Blog: What Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster debacle tells us about concentration on the internet
Monopolies on the mind? Check out this piece from our friends at CIRA: “Now it’s Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift tickets. Next, it could be the infrastructure of a Big Tech company.”
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Taking your right to repair message on Bill C-244 to the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology.
We took your voice to parliament, will they act now?
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