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CRTC launches online consultation on wholesale Internet June 3, 2011 - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today launched an online consultation asking Canadians to comment on the way large cable and telephone companies charge independent Internet service...

Canada's largest Television and Internet Service provider Shaw Communications this week announced new broadband internet and television pricing bundles which the company says were developed after five weeks of customer consultation during February and March. In addition to the new bundles, the...

Bell Aliant said today it will spend $22 million in order to bring a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network to approximately 60,000 homes and businesses in St. John's Newfoundland. FTTH connectivity is notable because it allows telecommunications providers to offer numerous services such as high...

The number of Internet domain names grew by nearly 3.5 million in the final three months of 2010 according to Verisign's Domain Name Industry Brief released today. The report says the total number of registered domains increased by 12.1 million names or 6.3 percent during 2010 bringing the...

I have been using Bell for over 5 years now and never had any major problems until recently. About mid last week my download speed dropped from my usual 600 kb/s to 40 kb/s. Using a wireless laptop, I thought it would be the actual problem, so I tried the same download on my desktop, with the...

We have a lake house in BC located about 500 km from our home in Calgary. The lake house has (semi-reliable) internet, radio-driven and an "on all the time" geothermal heating/cooling system. I'd like to be able to: - sense and control temp inside the house - sense temp outside the house -...

Hi all, I've been looking at DLNA enabled TVs since the summer and hoping for better options to come up, especially now that Netflix has entered the Canadian market. It's nice that DLNA adds networking but it won't do Netflix without some external server like PlayOn. Has anyone seen an...

The adoption of broadband internet access slowed dramatically in the United States over the last year according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The researchers found that two-thirds of American adults (66%) now have a broadband internet...

Im thinking of ditching bell tv after 5 years. Love the service, prices are good but sick of satellite tv losing signal in bad storms. The new Fibe tv service is available in my area.I currently have the fibe25 internet. Ive read that its a max of 4 set top box's. My question is i have 5 tvs. I...

I was thinking about putting up an OTA setup for my father in Prince Edward County. Looking at the TVFool of my father's home, I wished it was mine. Then I realized it could be. I regularly watch my TV remotely using eyetv and sling media. Has anyone actually implemented a remote antenna/htpc...

The World Wide Web grew by 1 million domain names in the first quarter of 2010, according to the "Domain Name Industry Brief" report out this week from Verisign. The report finds the number of registered domain names ended the first quarter of 2010 with a base of more than 193 million domain...

I have very recently switched my Internet provider from Telus to Shaw and have learned (am very tech challenged so could be wrong here) I must now purchase a router if I want a wireless connection for my laptop. From what I can gather, this was something Telus included with their modem. As...

Not sure if this is the appropriate forum to put it in but I have a question with the 3-in-1 (modem, switch, router) D-Link box Telus is supplying with TTV service. From what I see, it appears that the ethernet-connected computers first go through a Switch (on the Vista network map) before that...

Bell HS Friends, Here's a detective story about replacing a fried modem, including false leads by friendly Bell HS support staff. So, basically, the hope is that someone can share any good ideas concerning the predicament faced by our family. We are one week now without our Internet, which is...

According to a recent report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the overwhelming majority of Americans (92%) use multiple platforms to get their daily news with the internet now being the third most-popular news platform. The researchers say the web still falls behind local and...

If you don’t believe competition works in the digital services marketplace then consider the case of high speed internet service in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. I think the CRTC needs to ban bundling and aggressively promote competition in this sector. Once again, This is clear...

Canadians are well aware of the tremendous achievements by our Olympic athletes but another impressive achievement is the telecommunications network put into place the Vancouver Olympic organization. The network delivered over 24,000 hours of broadcast coverage to more than three and a half...

how the heck is that possible for them to decrease by 58GB is absolutely a complete screwjob i would understand if they went maybe down 20 or 30 but living on 2GB of internet a month is physically impossible, rogers is going to be getting one angry call very soon.

The Number Resource Organization (NRO), the coordinating group that oversees the allocation of Internet number resources around the world, announced today that less than 10 percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. The group is warning that with so few IPv4 addresses remaining...

A telephone survey conducted by Ipsos Reid this past summer has found that over four in five Canadians (82%) now have Internet access at home. The researchers say this represents a 6% increase from the second quarter of 2008 and a 4% increase from six months earlier. The researchers say the...