There has been a lot of talk about usage-based billing (UBB) in Canada the past couple of weeks, starting when the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (the CRTC) announced that they were going to introduce caps on bandwidth and essentially force internet service providers (ISPs) to charge those who go over the caps. Along with all [...]

There’s an interesting piece by Michael Geist in the Ottawa Citizen about the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)’s policies on Canadian internet service providers, and the effect they have on competition in Canada. One particularly interesting point to note is that Tim Denton, chair of the CRTC, pointed out that newcomer ISP’s, even if [...]

Steve Dale wrote a post a while ago about how the Confederation of British Industry recently conducted a study that concluded that workers screwing around on the internet at work was costing the United Kingdom just under £11 billion in lost productivity. It’s estimated that every individual worker spends about an hour and a half [...]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has just decided that the web is going to get a whole host of new domain names — which could be as varied as .bank, .sport, .shopping or pretty much anything else you can dream up. The article I’ve linked to cites fears of cybersquatting (sitting [...]

I’ve been lamenting the state of Canadian telecommunications for quite a while now, but today marks a real significant step backwards for this country’s telecom industry. Rogers, a major Canadian internet service provider, has decided to limit their once-unlimited service to 60 gigabytes per month, and charge users a fee of up to $5 for [...]