Joyce Hui's blog

Have you ever signed a phone contract for a certain incentive, say, unlimited texting to the U.S., and then shortly after your wireless service provider discontinues the feature? Then when you complain they tell you they reserve the right to change the terms? Then on top of that, you're told you can’t leave the contract without paying a hefty cancellation fee?

Well, if you live in Manitoba, you won’t be seeing these problems anymore. Read more »

Bell users in Quebec apparently enjoy more than double the amount of bandwidth usage allowance than those in Ontario. Read more »

Vertical integration is a prevalent issue in Canada. Just this year, Shaw bought Canwest’s Global TV network for $2 billion and Bell currently has a $1.3 billion deal set out to buy the rest of the CTV assets they didn’t already own. Read more »

With the current setbacks of the news broadcasting industry, such as heavy budget cuts and the popularized CNN effect, non-profit independent news media in North America are working to fill the gap in the fourth estate left by the erosion of investigative reporting by delivering news to the public through collaborative grassroots journalism. Read more »

Usage-based billing may sound like a fair way for internet users to be charged for their bandwidth consumption. You pay for what you use…or so we thought. Before you get too comfortable with the idea of it, Jesse Brown at TVO lends a couple of his analogies on what usage-based billing REALLY means for you. Read more »

On October 26, 2010, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission began a public hearing to discuss the topic of access to basic telecommunication services. OpenMedia.ca's position has been put forward by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic for the hearing, which ends next week. Read more »