It’s going to take years (and truckloads of money) to build domestic capacity to rival what the US companies currently have. And then you will have to pay that money back with a much smaller total potential customer base, while competing against established international competitors with deeper pockets.
It’s not impossible, and some players will absolutely be able to chip away at it, but it’s not going to be as easy or fast as people what it to be.
Even if you got the hardware for free, the operating costs are far more than you might expect.
Yes. That’s the point of this fee, to nudge people to upgrade those decades old systems that are forcing the carriers to maintain old (and much less spectrum efficient) equipment (with no parts support from the manufacturer any more).
They had to do similar to push the same stragglers off the old 1G (analog/TDMA) network 15 years ago.
They’ve claimed to know when the end of the world is coming multiple times.
And after each date came and went uneventfully, they have become increasingly quiet about those predictions.
“The risk that Canadian data collected by connected vehicles are accessed and exploited increases when these data are sent to — or transit through — foreign jurisdictions with more permissive data management frameworks.”
So… the USA?
Faith, family and freedom
Straight out of the MAGA phrasebook. 🙄
I hope it is still impossible for a right-wingnut to win in BC, but I don’t take anything for granted these days.
It’s funny how often Right wing policies end up hurting the industries they claim to want to help.
It has to be a combination of dishonesty and incompetence. Maybe with a splash of corruption added in for good measure.
I don’t see any other explanation.
“Adopt” and “co-opt” are very different things.
Co-opting takes control of that language away and re-defines it.
Not necessarily.
A phone that goes to a university campus for a few hours each day then to a mall for 4 hours every evening will imply a much different level of income than one that goes to bankers row on Bay Street during the day, and also goes to some international destination for a week at a time several times a year.
All without needing to know exactly who is paying the phone bill, or who is carrying the phone.
European carmakers have dozens of EV models on the market, and they are dominating the EU market
Yet the north American manufacturers have (at best) only 1 or 2 models of EV available, and those are priced in their luxury range, then they complain that nobody wants to buy EVs, so they double down on massive SUVs and unnecessary pickups.
In my experience, the best we can do is change the bus schedules so you have to walk further to a bus stop and wait longer for a bus that never arrives at the scheduled time…
The world’s car makers struggled to compete with Japan back in the '70s, but I would argue that struggle gave people access to better vehicles.
Turned out the winning move was to make affordable cars that were fuel efficient to operate and people would rush to buy them.
vapes need to have a major crackdown
no more ads
no more sugary flavours
As a first step, ban disposable vapes.
There is literal tons of electronics and lithium batteries getting thrown in the trash because of that bullshit.
but unfortunately, Organic Maps doesn’t offer public transit directions/schedules in my region
It is based on data from the Open Street Map project.
If nobody in your area has added that information, it won’t be there.
The good news is, anyone (including you) can add that information and provide a public service to the people of your area.
but to get it available when you aren’t at home will require you to learn a bit about networking
And, importantly, to learn about network security.
As soon as you open a hole in your home’s firewall and/or NAT there is the potential for a bad actor to enter through that hole, if you haven’t properly fortified it.
Apparently, the company hired to do the analysis can tell someone’s age and income level from cellphone data.
According to Environics own website they use cellular data in combination with other databases to infer those demographic signals.
It doesn’t use only cell data to determine your age or income category.
…and all the first nations and federal land.
Fuck every single person who is a part of this in any capacity
Including those who voted for it, and those who were able to vote against it but failed to do so.
And therefore should have more protections under the law than corporations.
In the last 2 years I’ve made vacation trips to Calgary and Halifax. Plus shorter day trips exploring around places in Manitoba that I hadn’t been to in the recent past.
I doubt that I’ll travel to the US again. There’s plenty of better places to go in the years I have remaining in my life.