OpenMedia.ca Launches ‘Stop the Squeeze’ Campaign Against Our ‘Big 3′ Carriers

OpenMedia.ca has launched a newborn crusade titled ‘Stop the Squeeze’, to debate against the nearby oligopoly by the field cellphone providers in Canada. The methodicalness previously successfully campaigned against usage-based billing for internet that attracted domestic attention:

OpenMedia.ca is asking Canadians to encourage the polity to ordered divagation key wireless spectrum, which, says OpenMedia.ca Executive Director Steve Anderson, the Big Three colossus radiophone sound providers wish to gobble up in meet to shut discover start-ups and autarkical providers.

OpenMedia.ca’s efforts become conception in response to an attempt by Rogers to mimic grassroots crusade tactics (curiously reminiscent of those utilised by the pro-Internet community) to convince polity that Big Telecom should be healthy to curb as much wireless spectrum as it wants. Says Anderson, “This would blackball the some autarkical ambulatory options we have. That means increased prices and modify worsened client service.”

“We hit reports that lobbyists from the Big Three are working period to manipulate the government,” continues Anderson. “This is every conception of a multi-faceted crusade for a command-and-control cyberspace and subject system. Canadians requirement to become together to defence against this.”

The newborn ‘Stop the Squeeze’ crusade notes the following:

On the daytime of a grave newborn wireless spectrum auction, we hit reports that the Big Three radiophone sound giants (who already curb almost 94% of the market) are disagreeable to trick the polity into movement autarkical competitors discover of the market. They’re disagreeable to block competitors from being healthy to ingest primary wireless spectrum. These colossus sound companies are feat so farther as to ingest high-priced lobbyists and digit is modify using a imitation grassroots campaign1.

If the Big Three succeed, they will:

• Squeeze independent providers discover of the radiophone sound market.
• Squeeze Canadians into binding individual constituent contracts with withering client service.
• Squeeze more money discover of your notecase every single period through newborn fees on your bill.

In short, they module blackball autarkical rivalry and be the only game in town. This plot will lock Canada behindhand the rest of the concern on ambulatory communications, cripple primary innovation, bounds ethnic progress, and drain your notecase every month.

Canadians already clear some of the maximal radiophone sound fees in the industrial concern and this is feat to make it worse2.

Click here to meet StoptheSqueeze.ca and send a communication to Prime Minister Harper and Industry Minister Christian Paradis.

What do you think? Do our ‘Big 3′ carriers hit an shackle appendage on the wireless industry?

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