photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives The CBC has managed to round up most of the telecom issues in one post about the election. Among them are the new fees for incoming SMS messages, throttling of third party DSL ISPs, and the lack of competition on the wireless front. The last good point that they made is that too few people know about the ccts. That’s the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services. If you’re at your wit’s end and an executive letterbomb isn’t your style, give it a shot. Filing a complaint is easy. The CBC article missed one thing, though. There are rumours curculating that Bell plans to take back quick GPS locks on some of their mobile devices. There hasn’t been any official confirmation, one of the Bell employees on dslreports.com says it’s unlikely, but even if it goes through there’s a good primer on what might happen from the comments section at a post by Michael Geist. At worst, AGPS might get the axe unless you pay an additional fee. I’d still be able to get a free and accurate lock on my HTC Touch but it’d take a while. I suppose I can live with that.
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I posted to imaddicted.ca
Plenty of telecom issues but no debate near the election
http://imaddicted.ca/telephony/plenty-of-issues-no-debate-near-election/
September 27 2008, 11:21pm | Comments »
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