TekSavvy Blog

2024: a year of fighting the internet oligopoly

TekSavvy Team — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:05:06 GMT

Many customers know that TekSavvy isn’t just a telecom service provider. Sure, we sell internet, phone and TV, but we do much more than that. We fight. For a heck of a lot of stuff.

Statscan telecom data paints a false picture of Canadian prices

Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:35:16 GMT

Cellphone and internet prices are going down and are contributing to lower inflation, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. Many Canadians, looking at their monthly bill, beg to differ. What’s behind this disconnect?

New year, new solutions – it’s time to break up the big telcos

Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:11:42 GMT

Happy 2024! With January typically being when many people reflect and make changes, it’s a good time for Canada to chart a new course for its failed telecom market.

Saving internet competition in Canada: a prescription for the CRTC

Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:35:39 GMT

Internet competition is nearly dead in Canada and prices for consumers are sky-high, a big part of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Dramatic, concrete action is needed to revive competition and ease some of the pressure families are feeling with their telecom bills.

Let’s welcome our new 382 area code

TekSavvy Team — Tue, 23 May 2023 14:09:41 GMT

With the explosion in the number of mobile devices over the past several years, it’s no wonder that many parts of Canada are running out of phone numbers. New area codes are being added to keep up with that demand, including in the Chatham, Ontario region.

TekSavvy celebrates 25 years of not being a reseller

Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement — Wed, 10 May 2023 14:01:22 GMT

There’s a dirty word that unfortunately gets attached to TekSavvy by Big Telecom’s lawyers and lobbyists who would rather we not exist. That word is “reseller.”

The telecom game is rigged against positive outcomes for consumers

Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:34:34 GMT

On the face of it, the recent attitude shift from the federal government and regulators toward Canada’s broken telecommunications market – with Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne and CRTC officials both promising near-term fixes – is good to see.

New-look CRTC sets out to fix the internet market it broke

Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:10:11 GMT

Last week’s announcement that the CRTC is finally taking action to fix Canada’s broken internet market is welcome news for consumers and independent service providers such as TekSavvy.

Carnage in Canadian telecom: more competitors eliminated

Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:04:37 GMT

In a mandate letter to new CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides released on Monday, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne stress the importance of wholesale regulation in ensuring competition for internet services to Canadians.

The Rogers-Shaw merger stinks to high heaven

Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:30:00 GMT

If the $26 billion Rogers-Shaw mega-merger wasn’t already bad enough for Canada, this week’s parliamentary hearings raised big red flags over how the deal has been enabled by the federal government.