Rusell McOrmond

Articles by Rusell McOrmond

Industry Committee study on Science and Technology is underway

Last month I blogged about why it is important to participate in the study by parliament’s Industry Committee on science and technology. I...

Software Patents and Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) (Part 1)

I was invited to speak at the IT360 conference on Software Patentsand Open Source, which I did in the afternoon of April 9. While...

Fake Facebook login phishing passwords

Yesterday, one of my facebook friends sent an email to all his friends with the subject of "Funniest video EVER - A monkey smoking...

President and CEO of Hydro Ottawa responds to questions about sale of Telecom Ottawa

I wrote about the sale of Telecom Ottawa in my article An ideal future communications infrastructure, how do we get there, and what is...

More Bell Canada misinformation and misdirection in attempt to justify questionably lawful throttling

In a Network World article by Dave Webb,Bell Canada’s chief of regulatory affairs Mirko Bibic attempts tojustify the throttling of the last-mile connection to...

And then there was two: Bell Canada seeks to wipe out ISP competitors

This seems to be the week when core Internet issues are beingdiscussed. While much of it is under the phrase “Network Neutrality”,that term is...

Separating the competitive access issues from the Net Neutrality issues.

Bell throttling wholesale providers of DSL services has further opened up the conversations around Net Neutrality. Michael Geist has written about the mounting...

Canada’s next great prime-time television experience – throttled by Bell

Yesterday morning I read another note about legacy phone and cable companies throttling competing P2P traffic that mentioned the fact that CBC made...

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