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Mark Evans

the blog - examines the world of telecom  and  technology  from  a distinctly Canadian perspective.

the person - lives in Toronto, CA with  his  wife  and  three children, and  works  as director of community with PlanetEye Inc.
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View Article  Google Finance....Maybe Not So Bad After All
Fred Wilson, a long-time Yahoo Finance user, has a post on how he thinks Google Finance is better. In some ways, I have to concur, which is contrary to my original view when GF was launched earlier this week. After using GF quite often, it has grown on me. I like the fact you can search by using a company's stock ticker or corporate name; I like how blog posts are part of the mix, and I like that data such as revenue and profits are quickly displayed. Who says first impressions are lasting?
Update: It's also interesting to check out Jeremy Zawodney's post on Yahoo Finance's woes.
View Article  The Roots of Net Neutrality Rules in Canada
Lost amid the 129 recommendations of the Telecom Review Panel's long-awaited report, which was released earlier this week were a few paragraphs about net neutrality - but they could be the foundation for a much-needed policy that Canada's telecom regulator - the CRTC - has yet to address. Here's some of the text from the recommendation:
"The report notes that there is growing concern that increasingly deregulated telecommunications service providers could, for strategic reasons decide to block or limit access to some Internet applications and content. Therefore, the panel recommends that the Telecommunications Act should confirm the right of Canadian consumers to access publicly available Internet applications and content by means of all public telecommunications networks that provide access to the Internet.....The panel believes telecommunications service providers, in most cases, have little or no incentive to interfere with customer access. However, the principle to open access to the Internet is sufficiently important that it justifies a new regulatory provision to ensure that it is maintained."
  Granted, this is just one recommendation that's short on details and long on wishing thinking but at least someone is recognizing the importance of net neutrality. If this is just the start of a more comprehensive, detailed public discussion, then the panel will have done its job. Does it strike anyone as strange that the net neutrality issue is red-hot in the U.S. while it's still lurking in the bushes in Canada? Maybe it's because the Canadian carriers such as Bell and Telus have not been has aggressive about implementing downstream tollgates or prioritization fees - other than Shaw and its mysterious $10/month QoS "enhancement" fee that improves the quality of non-Shaw VoIP services such as Vonage. Vonage, by the way, recently filed a complaint with the CRTC so maybe this will be the spark needed to put net neutrality on the front burner.
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