• Telecom
  • TELUS Buying Mobilicity Bad for Consumers
  • Bell-Astral 2 Hearing - Day 5
  • Bell-Astral 2 Hearing - Day 4
  • Bell-Astral 2 Hearing - Day 3
  • Bell-Astral 2 Hearing - Day 2
  • Bell-Astral 2 Hearing - Day 1
  • PIAC to represent consumers during CRTC hearing on the proposed acquisition of Astral Media Inc. by Bell Canada
  • Wireless Competition Vanishing After Latest Spectrum Deal
  • Consumer and Public Interest Groups Still Oppose Bell-Astral Merger
  • Spectrum Announcements Do Not Address Real Problem
  • CRTC Wireless Code Hearing PIAC Summary – Day Five (February 15, 2013)
  • Wireless Code Hearing PIAC Summary – Day Four (February 14, 2013)
  • Wireless Code Hearing PIAC Summary – Day Three (February 13, 2013)
  • Wireless Code Hearing PIAC Summary – Day Two (February 12, 2013)
  • Wireless Code Hearing PIAC Summary – Day One (February 11, 2013)
  • Wireless Code Hearing Provides Hope for A Fairer Wireless Market for Consumers
  • MEDIA ADVISORY, PIAC TO APPEAR BEFORE CRTC ON WIRELESS CODE
  • Spectrum Auctions Need Measures to Promote Competition and Public Interest Uses
  • Consumer Concerns Addressed in CRTC Draft Wireless Code
  • Canadian Consumers Need Better Disclosure About Internet Speed and Performance Claims
  • Minister Asked to Intervene in Shaw-Rogers Spectrum Deal
  • Part 1 Application, directed to Bell Canada and WiMacTel Inc., “Regarding Billing Of Calls Placed From Bell Canada Payphones Which Contravene The Telecommunications Act And Are Inconsistent With Directives Issued By The Commission”
  • Canadian Consumers Expect Better Protections for International Roaming Fees
  • Wireless Code Can Empower Consumers
  • Have EVEN MORE say on Cellphones! Comment on the CRTC’s Wireless Code - UPDATE: CRTC Online Consultation Now Open!
  • CCTS Report Shows Need for Wireless Code
  • Media Advisory: Bell plays hardball with Canadians, asks Cabinet to change broadcasting rules after public interest decision
  • CONSUMERS APPLAUD CRTC DENIAL OF BELL’S BID FOR ASTRAL
  • BCE-Astral, Consumers ready for the CRTC decision today
  • CRTC Wireless Code Hearing Good News for Consumers
  • Media Release PIAC Applauds Competition Bureau Lawsuit for Premium Text Messages
  • Consumer and Public Interest Groups Oppose Bell-Astral Merger
  • PIAC welcomes Ontario cellphone consumer protection bill
  • Spectrum Auction, Strengthening of wireless competition is no sure thing
  • Please give us your two cents worth about payphones . . .
  • Spectrum Auction Caps Would Mean Wireless Competition Abandoned by Government
  • Northwestel regulatory framework decision is a “New Deal for the North”
  • Consumers to Benefit from Sustainable Competition in Internet At Last
  • Leading Canadian Consumer Groups Alarmed by Dramatic Increase in Wireless Complaints, le gouvernement doit agir
  • Consumers Need Better Safeguards for Mobile Premium Services
  • Use spectrum auction to further competition
  • No Rural Broadband Fund for Canada
  • PIAC comment: Framework for the 700 MHz Band and Aspects Related to Commercial Mobile Spectrum
  • Mobile Text Messages
  • PIAC submission to the Manitoba Wireless Consultation calls for a principled basis for segregation
  • Regulate telecommunications by results not promises consumer group says
  • PIAC calls CRTC deferral accounts decision a reasonable conclusion to a flawed regulatory adventure
  • PIAC applauds CRTC decision to allow competitors access to important broadband facilities
  • Is Broadband Basic Service
  • Comments of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre associated with Industry Canada consultation on foreign ownership rules in telecommunications
  • PIAC Submission to the Government Consultation on A Digital Economy Strategy for Canada
  • Bell Canada Touch-Tone Overcharge Reversed
  • PIAC comments on the telecommunications foreign ownership provisions in the budget
  • Consumer groups call for better telecommunications services for all Canadians
  • PIAC says government issues contradictory broadband and wireless (Globalive) decisions
  • Canadian Consumers Need More Net Neutrality
  • Review of Globalive Wireless Management Corp. under the Canadian ownership and control regime
  • CRTC’s Net Neutrality Decision Rubber Stamps ISPs’ Throttling
  • Deferral Accounts: Supreme Court decision shows need of legislative reform
  • Tell the CRTC What YOU Think About Net Neutrality
  • National Do Not Call List—Making It Work Better For You
  • National Do Not Call List-How to Make it Work For You
  • PIAC Welcomes Do Not Call List, Urges Consumers to Sign Up
  • Major Parties Asked to Support Consumer Rights in Telecommunications
  • Supreme Court of Canada grants leave to appeal CRTC “deferral acounts” decision
  • New text messaging charges criticized by consumer groups
  • The Big Grab and How to Fight It
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