Posts Tagged ‘Canada’

Who are the best aggregators in Canada?

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

I’m trying to remember who we worked with back, years ago, when we wanted to do text to screen in nightclubs. Can’t for the life of me remember the company names. All I remember was a Rogers executive who didn’t understand why anyone would want to text an arbitrary message to a screen in an nightclub.

Any suggestions on Canadian aggregators?

If Ewan lived in Canada, he’d have blown…

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

$13,465.60

yes that’s right dear reader. Ewan’s pockets would be hurting a lot more than they currently do if he was in our fair country.

Here’s how we figured it out.

Ewan would have the exact same plan I do. On Fido, the now defunct $18 value pack that gives me 12MB of data a month.

Data usage by our Ewan was 275MB for the month.

He gets 12MB included in the plan, that’s 263MB left over.

263MB equals 269312k

Now at the ever gouging rate of 5cents/kb that would be

269312k * 5cents = $13,465.60

which at the current exchange rate is…. 6,864.618 GBP

Yup. Feel free to pick up jaws off the floor now.

More pay for BlackBerry users?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Canadian execs are demanding overtime – for reading messages on their BlackBerrys. The country’s civil service union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) told The Ottowa Citizen that companies who expect their workers to be permanently checking their mobiles should pay for the privilege.

Ed Cashman, PSAC’s regional executive vice-president told the paper: “These are gadgets and the expectation is, if you have one, you are available 24/7. Most jobs don’t need that degree of availability. If you want that degree of availability, you have to pay people for it.”

Or of course the workers could just switch the devices off…


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