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Originally posted by Omega_Blue is "pre" actually a word?

Drats, damn your cleverness. Anyways, I was just joking I would never get boost mobile.

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Originally posted by glass Drats, damn your cleverness. Anyways, I was just joking I would never get boost mobile.

lol yeah me either. I used to have an MVNO of Sprint, MetroPCS (I am sure any of the ATL, FL, and SFTAs are all familiar with them), and it was pre-paid. Unlimited domestic calling and texting, for $50. It wasn't bad, but it sucked cause there is no real roaming. You can only roam in their own service areas. Which when I had it, was limited to 4 cities in the US. Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, SF, and Sacramento. Pretty horrible. Now it is like 10 cities.

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Originally posted by bas Dual exhaust tips on dual exhaust = QUAD EXHAUST = 300 gain in horsepower. Duh

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Originally posted by bas Undies with a dickhole aren't good for guys. Your balls can get caught in them. That's why I prefer to go over the gate instead of through the fence.

what canada needs is legislation to allow more cellular companies to do business in canada, thus forcing the top 3 cell companies(bell, rogers and telus) to drop their prices and offer better contracts and promotions in order to compete with the new companies coming in. the top 3, for along time have done whatever they could to keep competiton out and justify their high prices. i was with bell and payed to get out of my contract, b/c i was sick of bells bullshit.

ive been without a cell now for maybe a good year, since i dont really find myself needing one as much now. but i kinda do want one again, and am looking to go with rogers and their my 5 program and a sony ericsson mp3 phone.

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AustralianGQ

This guy seems alright.....

Liberal bill seeks to abolish cellphone surcharges

Liberal MP David McGuinty has introduced a bill that seeks to abolish the system access fee charged by cellphone providers and enact more rights for telecommunications customers in general.

“System access fees are an obvious frustration for Canadian consumers,” McGuinty said in a release. “We’re talking 21 years and billions of dollars in misleading payments. My bill will end fictitious surcharges on cellphones.”

McGuinty, the MP for Ottawa South and brother of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, introduced bill C-555 in the House on Monday. He is the second MP in a week to introduce legislation that seeks additional regulatory oversight of telecommunications companies. Charlie Angus, the NDP MP for Timmins and James Bay in Ontario, last week introduced his "net neutrality" private member's bill that seeks to limit how much control service providers have over internet traffic.

McGuinty's bill, also called the Telecommunications Clarity and Fairness Act, proposes the conditions of holding cellphone spectrum licences be changed "to include a prohibition against the levying of any additional fee or charge that is not part of the subscriber’s monthly fee or monthly plan rate." Cellphone providers would also be required to make available with each service contract a fact sheet that discloses every service being provided and any associated costs.

Like Angus's bill, McGuinty's proposed legislation also contains net neutrality provisions that would force internet service providers to provide "clear and accurate" information on network management practices that reduce advertised speeds.

The bill would also make it illegal for providers to lock cellphones such that they do not work on other carriers' networks, and would begin an assessment of the effectiveness of the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services, the industry-run complaints body set up last year.

A spokesperson for Rogers Communications Inc. did not return a request for comment. Spokespeople for Bell Canada Inc. and Telus Corp. directed requests for comment to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, the industry's advocacy group.


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