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My phone rang on the ski hill this morning.  It was AT&T’s collection agency, BCR, calling to harass me again. 
You see, AT&T picked my pocket to the tune of $1170, and then…

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For the last few days I’ve been playing with Scanr on the N95. I first wrote about Scanr in October of 2006, but with the low quality camera on my BlackBerry Pearl, and the Rogers hig…

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All week long at Mobile World Congress the impact of cheaply available wireless broadband was evident.  From the folks who were broadcasting live with 3G wireless camera phones, to people uploading…

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The Boy Genius report has dropped a couple of juicy gems in the last day or so for Canadians.  First came the news that Rogers would offer $7/month unlimited browsing and next that we’d…

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The rumour mill was working overtime yesterday, spinning new yarns and hyping up speculators everywhere.
Venture Beat reported that Facebook was planning to acquire Plaxo.  Shortly after, TechCrunc…

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A fierce duel is being fought at retail by Telus and Bell.  When Bell announced unlimited data plans on HTC Touch devices for $7/month, Telus responded by dropping the price of t…

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There’s an interesting regulatory battle going on south of the border. "Forbearance" is a provision in the 1996 Telecom Act that allows the FCC to set aside the competition rules…

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There’s been some serious buzz in the last 24 hours about Verizon’s decision to allow any device, not just Verizon certified devices, to work on its network.  What Verizon is…

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The drums continue to beat this morning for lower cost cellular service in Canada. 

Jim Courtney explains, at length, the impact of Rogers’ monopolostic pricing on advanced services…

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It’s Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada, which means that once again we’re visiting the in-laws in Kitchener, Ontario. As I’ve mentioned previously, that means no internet. This time around…

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I just got a pamphlet in the mail the other day from Rogers, offering all kinds of new services to buy on my Blackberry.  Included:
Rogers NewsClip.  This handy application helps you sav…

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After my experience getting charged with overage on my Unlimited-But-Very-Limited Blackberry data plan, several readers sent me links to the Rogers Blackberry Users petition. …

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Mark Evans made a call to Rogers to investigate the rumour that Rogers is blocking podcasts.  They claim no, although they say they are prioritizing email and web higher.  How.  Packet…

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While at Torcamp I have heard from several sources that Rogers and Shaw are blocking podcast downloads.  After two to three downloads, the data stops.  This, of course, is the same issu…