Montreal Tech Watch

Earlier this week, the Canadian government promised to overrule the CRTC decision, after a massive consumer backlash powered by online petitions and social media tools. It’s an achievement for the non-profit organization openmedia.ca, which led the successful campaign, and also a demonstration of the outreach of social networks, with Canadians spreading the outrage on Facebook, [...]

Since the launch of the online petition, 200,000 canadians have expressed their opposition against the upcoming usage-based billing. It’s an unprecedent level of mobilization, that is growing strongly by the hour. At other levels, the liberal party and the NDP also raised the issue in Ottawa, while Bell’s purchase of CTV is questioned. The impacts of [...]

The fact that unlimited Internet service was going to disappear soon didn’t really seem to bother anyone. I wrote how this is going to be a grim situation, with Canadians soon to lag behind . The news is getting picked up though by social media websites. It’s finally on reddit’s frontpage, shocking video games users, and [...]

ISP performance in the US ISP Performance in Canada This week’s good news for Canadian consumers come from Netflix. With one of the most advanced video-streaming infrastructure, and an openess typical of upstarts, the innovative american company has published performance graphs of different internet service providers. We all know each ISP advertise differently their service, [...]

Montreal-based telecommunications services company Anomalous Networks announced on 14th Dec funding from Blackberry Partners Fund and from angel investors group AngesQuébec. Anomalous Networks helps other companies manage mobile telecom costs, with customizable software able to track voice and data usage. What started out as a consulting company which would help companies analyze their cellular data [...]