Re: Google’s 10-month CFO search lands Bell Canada exec

thenonconformer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:08:43 -0000

Wow not from Bell..

This is so typical Bell, Bait and Switch, first bait the customers and nail the customers on the extras next too.

Google slams Bell Canada: open Internet is "extraordinary"
Ars Technica - By Nate Anderson | Published: July 08, 2008 - 12:30PM CT The public comments on Bell Canada's P2P throttling practices are in, and one thing is clear: a gulf the size of Nunavut separates the huge ISPs from web-based companies and consumer groups. Google goes further; not only should Bell stop picking and choosing which lawful apps to throttle, but the company needs to start upgrading its infrastructure in a serious way. Throttling merely "encourages carriers to build their business model around managing scarcity, rather than developing more abundant capacity.
Google slams Bell Canada for throttling Internet Canada.com TORONTO - Internet heavyweight Google Inc. has waded into a fight with Bell Canada, saying the telecommunications company should be "prohibited" from the practice of curtailing of peer-to-peer Internet use to manage limited capacity on its network.
Google joins in Bell Canada traffic throttling war p2pnet.net
CBC.ca - ITBusiness.ca - FierceTelecom - mediacaster
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Cellphone users to be charged for incoming text messages
CBC.ca - Cellphone users with Bell and Telus are going to have to fork over a little more to receive incoming text messages, under new pricing plans slated to roll out in August.
Get ready to pay for incoming text messages Canada.com
Uproar over new Canadian texting fees United Press International
Mobile Magazine - Soonews.ca - QuicklyBored - The Province
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There is a public outrage on the part of Canadian consumers following the release of the local pricing plans. Apple the iPhone maker has watched nearly 50,000 of its loyal customers sign an anti-Rogers petition at ruinediphone.com, which has in turn sparked hundreds of potentially damaging reports on the matter by bloggers and members of the mainstream media.

Canada's cellphone market is currently dominated by three key players - Bell (TSX:BCE), Telus and Rogers Communications Inc.(TSX:RCI.B).
The petition has attracted attention in Canada and abroad, but it won’t have any effect on Rogers unless consumers follow through with the old-fashioned but simple and reliable strategy for pulling down prices.

If you don’t like the price of an iPhone, don’t buy it. If Rogers finds it has priced itself out of the market, it won’t take a petition to ring in lower prices.

All that is just the beginning of the Customer reactions, war I had written about months ago too.

Prentice calls Bell, Telus to task for decision to charge clients without bundle The Canadian Press - Wed Jul 9, 4:05 PM

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Jim Prentice is taking Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility to task for their plans to charge some of their customers for each incoming text message and called both company CEOs to Ottawa to explain their "ill-thought out" decision.

and what about big bad Bell sympatico

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Internet oversight
Globe and Mail - 3 hours ago
Toronto -- Re Google Raises Fuss Over Bell's Speed Bumps (Report on Business, July 9): Bell Canada and other telecommunications companies have been slowing, shaping and restricting Internet traffic for some time.
Google slams "throttling" of internet traffic in Canada Digital Home
Google condemns Bell's 'throttling' practice Toronto Star
Canada.com - Ars Technica - CBC.ca - BetaNews
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