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Appendix A: Complaints by Service Provider
Appendix A ‐ Complaints by Service Provider Complaints Change all % of Concluded Resolved Closed Resolved Closed Accepted Issued Accepted Rejected Accepted Y/Y % Provider Accepted and Concluded Complaints Pre‐Investigation Investigation Recommendation Decision #100 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1010100 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1010580 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1010620 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1010738 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1011295.com 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 295.ca 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3Web 0.0% 0 ‐100.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 450Tel 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 768812 Ontario Inc. 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8COM 0.1% 8 ‐88.4% 10 2 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 A dimension humaine 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Acanac Inc. 0.6% 64 ‐16.9% 64 37 1224 0 0 0 0 Access Communications Inc. 0.0% 1 0.0% 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Achatplus Inc. 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ACN Canada 0.8% 82 9.3% 81 54 2 22 3 0 0 0 0 AEBC Internet Corporation 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AEI Internet 0.0% 3 ‐40.0% 5 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 AIC Global Communications 0.0% 1 0.0% 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Alberta High Speed 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Allstream Inc. -
Videotex/Teletext Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (North American PIPS) I
American Canadian National Adopted for Use by the Federal Government REFERENCE | NBS PUBLICATIONS r i(/. f 1 1 wS\3 No.121 1986 | North American PLPS i Government use. pederai d has been adopted l°'Fe " , Government are c0™e„,ation Level This standard within ,hc Federal ^^eUrie*■*.ca,ions available concerning 'ts . ds Publication . list the P . Processing Deta''S °n Processing Standards for a cornet the Standards Qf SSSCU-*- American <C !ri b Canadian National CL'UCX IJ A- Standards Standard Association .110-1983 T500-1983 NBS RESEARCH INFORMATION Videotex/Teletext CENTER Presentation Level Protocol Syntax North American PLPS Published in December, 1983 by American National Standards Institute, Inc. Canadian Standards Association 1430 Broadway 178 Rexdale Boulevard New York, NY 10018 Rexdale (Toronto), Ontario M9W 1R3 (Approved November 3, 1983) (Approved October 3, 1983) American National Standards and Canadian Standards Standards approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) imply a consensus of those substantially concerned with their scope and provisions. These standards are intended as guides to aid the manufacturer, the consumer, and the general public. The existence of a standard does not in any respect preclude any of the above groups, whether they have approved the standard or not, from manufacturing, marketing, purchasing, or using products, processes, or procedures not conforming to the standard. These standards are subject to periodic review and users are cautioned to obtain the latest editions. In this standard, the words ''shall/' "should,” and "may" represent requirements, recommendations, and options, respectively, as specified in ANSI and CSA policy and style guides. -
WHERE the VIDEOTEX ACTION IS Price-The Rest of the Industry Will
vice mix, but now the operators put the spotlight on transactions-airline ticket- ing, stock trading and banking. Some 40 WHERE THE VIDEOTEX ACTION IS banks with home banking services are bet- ting customers will want to do their bank- These are among the videotex services being used by 1 million ing by computer. Americans. Some of the services are still in develcpment. Videotex pioneers also learned about hardware: A certain minority of people Service/System Operator Service Area Subscribe enjoy using personal computers as Count videotex terminals, and many have signed A -T Videotext/Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune Seneca County, 150 up for national videotex services such as Ohio Mrs. Mass CompuServe. But Mr. and Mar- American People Link/American Home national 16,000 ket don't want to deal with computerlike Network gadgets (perhaps their children will, in years to come). In addition, marketers CNt Partners/Citibank, Nynex, RCA national future learned people wouldn't spend $600 or Citiret/Applied Videotex Systems Boston 20,000 $900 on a "dumb" videotex terminal-one with little memory and no computing CompuServe/H & R Block international 280,000 capacity. In its New York debut, Cov- Coridea (Target)/AT&T, Chemical Bank, New York, 45,000- idea's Target service is subsidizing by at Time Inc., Bank of America California least $100 the $49.95 price of each termi- Del 3hi/General Videotex Corp. international NA nal, which is designed to be attached to the user's TV set and telephone jack. Direct Access/Citibank New York 22,000' Dow Jones News-Retrieval/Dow Jones international 250,000' n addition, home videotex services in the U.S. -
Afterword: Omissions,Additions, and Corrections
Afterword: Omissions,Additions, and Corrections The astute reader will notice that I’ve omitted a few online services. Some were so short-lived or of so little consequence that they would be meaningless to most readers. Others are beyond the theme or time frame of this book. Some of the omissions: ABI/INFORM (Abstracted Business Information), a database of abstracted information from selected business publications, hosted by ORBIT, Dialog, and eventually UMI/ProQuest Data Courier, a small online service hosted by the Louisville Courier- Journal (the owners of which bought ABI/INFORM under the company name “Data Courier”) EasyLink, Western Union’s now-defunct email/FAX/mail system Easynet, a front end for more than 700 database services EasyPlex, a specialized CompuServe email service E-COM, the United States Postal Service’s electronic messaging service (EMS) Freenet, free BBSs in cities such as Cleveland and Rochester that used the same software and were designed to serve as community centers Info-Look, a gateway to online services hosted by Nynex Internet Relay Chat (IRC), the first implementation of real-time chatting via the Internet (Jarkko Oikarinen, 1988) Knowledge Index (KI), a subset of Dialog databases The Microsoft Network (MSN), more an ISP than online service that started after Bill Gates decided that the Internet was going to be important, after all 177 178 Afterword MIX, the McGraw-Hill Information Exchange, a CoSy-based service for educators NABU Network, a Canadian online service that operated -
Participatory Democracy and the Radio Spectrum in Canada and Uruguay
-l UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL LIFE-MEDIA FOR A WIRELESS WORLD: PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY AND THE RADIO SPECTRUM IN CANADA AND URUGUAY THÈSE PRÉSENTÉE COMME EXIGENCE PARTIELLE DU DOCTORAT EN COMMUNICATION PAR EVAN LIGHT NOVEMBRE 2012 UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL Service des bibliothèques Avertissement La diffusion de cette thèse se fait dans le respect des droits de son auteur, qui a signé le formulaire Autorisation de reproduire et de diffuser un travail de recherche de cycles supérieurs (SOU-522- Rév.01-2006). Cette autorisation stipule que «conformément à l'article 11 du Règlement no 8 des études de cycles supérieurs, [l'auteur] concède à l'Université du Québec à Montréal une licence non exclusive d'utilisation et de publication de la totalité ou d'une partie importante de [son] travail de recherche pour des fins pédagogiques et non commerciales. Plus précisément, [l'auteur] autorise l'Université du Québec à Montréal à reproduire, diffuser, prêter, distribuer ou vendre des copies de [son] travail de recherche à des fins non commerciales sur quelque support que ce soit, y compris l'lntern~t. Cette licence et cette autorisation n'entraînent pas une renonciation de [la] part [de l'auteur] à [ses] droits moraux ni à [ses] droits de propriété intellectuelle. Sauf entente contraire, [l'auteur] conserve la liberté de diffuser et de commercialiser ou non ce travail dont [il] possède un exemplaire.» - - --- - - - - - - - ---- - - - - - ---- UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL MÉDIAS DE VIE POUR LTN MONDE SANS-FILS: LA DÉMOCRATIE PARTICIPATIVE ET LE SPECTRE RADIOÉLECTRIQUE AU CANADA ET EN URUGUAY THÈSE PRÉSENTÉE COMME EXIGENCE PARTIELLE DU DOCTORAT EN COMMUNICATION PAR EVANLIGHT NOVEMBRE 2012 REMERCIEMENTS While many people have helped me through this five-year journey, 1 must begin with a thank you to my wife Joanne who moved across the country and in with me the day before 1 started this crazy affair. -
The “Affordable Access Coalition”
Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2015-134 Phase 1 Intervention of the Affordable Access Coalition 14 July 2015 The “Affordable Access Coalition” Phase 1 Intervention Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2015-134 Review of basic telecommunications services 14 July 2015 Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2015-134 Phase 1 Intervention of the Affordable Access Coalition 14 July 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ 3 Glossary & List of Abbreviations ..................................................................................... 13 Tables and Figures ........................................................................................................... 14 1. Introduction and key positions ................................................................................... 1 2. Responses to consultation questions ...................................................................... 19 Canadians’ evolving needs for telecommunications service (Q1 – Q2) ........................ 19 The Commission’s role regarding access to basic telecom services (Q3 – Q7)............ 68 Regulatory measures for basic telecommunications services (Q8 – Q13) .................. 114 3. The Need for Ongoing Monitoring .......................................................................... 129 4. Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 131 Appendices: Appendix “A”: -
Will Access to the Net Be a Privilege Or a Right?
Winter/Spring 1996 Netizens and Online Access Volume 7 No 1 “People need communication to represent themselves, and e-mail for that reason, as well as Netnews.” from a post at the San Francisco Public Library during the NTIA online conference, Nov. 14-21, 1994 Will Access to the Net only an important concern for the individuals involved, it is also a concern for those online who will benefit Be a Privilege or a Right? from the broadest participation of all and their contribu- tions to the online community. Those who have to pay This issue of the Amateur Computerist is on the by the hour or by the amount of data they use, are subject of Netizens and Online Access. The issue dis- limited in what they are able or willing to contribute. cusses both the cooperative online community and the Also, commercial profit oriented access has led to abuse effort to extend access to the online community. We have of Usenet. While those connecting from academic or included articles about the development of the online community networking sites must often agree to act Usenet community and about the challenges it faces. according to acceptable use policies which prohibit Also, this issue contains articles about efforts to extend advertising, chain letters, pyramid schemes, etc, some access to the Net (to Usenet, e-mail and a text based commercial sites have been less willing to enforce browser like lynx), to those who are not yet online but acceptable use policies to prevent such abuse. who want to contribute to the Net. -
We Listen. We Help. Annual Report 2011-12
We listen. We help. Annual Report 2011-12 www.ccts-cprst.ca [email protected] 1-888-221-1687 CCTS Annual Report 2011-12 Contents Message from the Chair of the 2 Participating Service Providers 20 Board of Directors, Mary Gusella Signing Up Service Providers Message from the Commissioner, Howard Maker 3 Working with Service Providers to Improve Who We Are & What We Do: Our Mandate 4 Process and Resolve Complaints Our Complaints Process: How it Works 5 Penalizing Customers for Complaints to CCTS The Year in Review – Highlights of 2011-12 6 List of Participating Service Providers Dealing with Customer Complaints Customer Survey 23 Deposit and Disconnection Code What Customers Said About CCTS A National Wireless Code What Customers Said About Service Provider Public Awareness Update “Public Awareness” Activities 2011-12 Complaints 8 Who We Are 27 2011-12 Operational Statistics Report Our Board of Directors Summary of Leading Complaint Issues Our Team Summary of Issues Raised in Complaints Statistics 30 Topics + Trends 12 Definitions Billing Detailed Analysis of Issues Raised in Complaints Case Study #1 – Phantom Service Analysis of Closed Complaints Case Study #2 – But it’s all in my bill… Compensation Analysis Case Study #3 – Why didn’t you just tell me?! Out-of-Mandate Complaints Contract Disputes Contact Centre Activities Case Study #4 – Contract? What contract? Complaints by Service Provider Case Study #5 – Where did it say that? Complaints by Province Case Study #6 – I didn’t ask you to Contact Us 47 make that change Service Delivery -
K-12 Education and the Internet: a Technical Report Prepared for Saskatchewan Education, Training and Employment
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 373 798 IR 055 160 AUTHOR Proctor, L.F.; Allen, A. J. TITLE K-12 Education and the Internet: A Technical Report Prepared for Saskatchewan Education, Training and Employment. PUB DATE Jun 94 NOTE 38p. PUB TYPE Reports Evaluative/Feasibility (142) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Access to Information; *Computer Assisted Instruction; *Computer Networks; Educational Innovation; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Futures (of Society); *Information Networks; Technological Advancement; *Telecommunications IDENTIFIERS File Transfer Protocol; *Internet; Saskatchewan; USENET ABSTRACT This report examines the context and impact on the classroom of teacher and student access to the Internet in K-12 education in Saskatchewan (Canada) public schools. It begins with a description of the Internet, including funding and connectivity concerns. The following four basic services of the Internet are introduced with examples of K-12 implementations: electronic mail (e-mail); Internet Relay Chats (IRC); USENET newsgroups; and file transfer protocol (FTP). Examples of commercial, educational, and community Internet providers are presented. Next, the impact of the Internet on K-12 education is discussed and several issues are examined, including access to the Internet; acquiring the skills to navigate the Internet; technical support; navigational aids; telephone lines; increasing traffic; capability of hardware; access to material unsuitable for the classroom; finding time for using the Internet; and student assessment. Finally, five recommendations for using the Internet in Saskatchewan schools are made. A reading list, for additional information is provided. (Contains 31 references.) (J LB) ***********AAA************************************************* Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. -
Complaints by Service Provider
Appendix A ‐ Complaints by Service Provider Complaints Change all % of % Concluded Resolved Closed Resolved Closed Accepted Issued Accepted Rejected Accepted Y/Y Provider Accepted and Concluded Complaint Pre‐Investigation Investigation Reco. Decisions #100 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 1010100 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 1010580 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 1010620 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 1010738 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 1011295.com 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 295.ca 0.00% 0 ‐100.0% 000000000 3Web 0.04% 4 ‐42.9% 550000000 450Tel 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 768812 Ontario Inc. 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 8COM 0.61% 69 ‐ 688126330000 A dimension humaine 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 Acanac Inc. 0.68% 77 ‐35.8% 79 42 3 28 51000 Access Communications Inc. 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 Achatplus Inc. 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 ACN Canada 0.66% 75 41.5% 70 50 5 11 40000 AEBC Internet Corporation 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 AEI Internet 0.04% 5 400.0% 310200000 AIC Global Communications 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 Alberta High Speed 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 Allstream inc. 0.04% 4 ‐ 431000000 Altima Telecom 0.02% 2 ‐ 110000000 America Tel 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 Amtelecom Telco GP Inc. 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 Auracom 0.02% 2 ‐ 210100000 Avenue 0.00% 0 ‐ 000000000 Axess Communications 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 Axsit 0.01% 1 ‐ 100100000 B2B2C Inc. 0.02% 2 ‐33.3% 320100000 Bell Aliant Regional Communications LP 1.41% 160 ‐1.2% 162 124 6 21 10 1000 Bell Canada 32.20% 3,652 ‐6.6% 3,521 2,089 235 889 307 0110 BlueTone Canada 0.03% 3 ‐ 311100000 BMI Internet 0.00% 0 0.0% 000000000 Bragg Communications Inc. -
Petition by Competitive Network Operators of Canada to the Governor in Council
PETITION BY COMPETITIVE NETWORK OPERATORS OF CANADA TO THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL TO RESCIND TELECOM DECISION CRTC 2021-181, REQUESTS TO REVIEW AND VARY TELECOM ORDER 2019-288 REGARDING FINAL RATES FOR AGGREGATED WHOLESALE HIGH-SPEED ACCESS SERVICES AND TO RESTORE TELECOM ORDER CRTC 2019-288, FOLLOW-UP TO TELECOM ORDERS 2016-396 AND 2016-448 – FINAL RATES FOR AGGREGATED WHOLESALE HIGH-SPEED ACCESS SERVICES 15 JULY 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .........................................................................................................1 1.0 INTRODUCTION AND STRUCTURE OF PETITION ...................................................8 1.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................8 2.0 HOW WE CAME TO A NEW DARK AGE FOR COMPETITION AND AFFORDABILITY ........................................................................................................ 10 2.1 2013 to 2015: Profoundly Distorted Capacity-based Billing Rates ............................... 11 2.2 The CRTC Reviews Costing Inputs for Wholesale HSA Services ............................... 11 2.3 The 2016 Interim Rates Orders were Influenced by the Big Telecoms’ Willful Disregard for the CRTC’s Rules .................................................................................................. 12 2.4 TO 2019-288 Sets Final Rates After Years of Delays Caused by the Big Telecoms ..... 13 2.5 The Federal Court of Appeal Dismisses the “Dubious” Appeals of the Big Telecoms.. 15 -
History - Ieee Ottawa Section1
HISTORY - IEEE OTTAWA SECTION1 The history of the IEEE in Ottawa is the story of the people and institutions and industries that created one of the largest concentrations of information communications technology in the world. For example, the IEEE Canada Showcase of Canadian Engineering Achievements2 includes the following projects that were based in the Ottawa area, and involved many IEEE members. Radar3, radio4, electronic music5, Telidon6, the Crash Position Indicator7, the Alouette8, Anik9 and ISIS10 satellites, the pacemaker11, and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory 12. According to the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) “Ottawa boasts the highest percentage of university graduates in Canada and the second largest concentration of science and technology employment of 316 North American cities, surpassed only by California's Silicon Valley”13. The development of the “high tech” community, which some termed “Silicon Valley North” is outlined in the book “Silicon Valley North: A High-Tech Cluster of Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, edited by Larisa V. Shavina14. Institutions Ottawa is the location of a number of Engineering and Scientific Research and Development Institutions in which IEEE members have played a large role.15 These Institutions consist of: • the Communications Research Centre, or CRC, located in the west end of Ottawa; • the Bell Northern Research Laboratories (BNR) located nearby; • the National Research Council16, located in the east end of Ottawa; • Carleton University and The University of Ottawa, each