Fred sez, "My friend and fellow-NY-techer Noel 'No-Neck' Hidalgo was deported from China last week. He got rounded up as one of the large Canadian phone companies, is playing really scummy tricks on its wireless broadband subscribers. A Slashdot post has the dirt:
"Canadian telco TELUS sold a bunch of (expensive) Unlimited EV-DO aircard accounts last winter and are now summarily canceling them or forcing people to switch to much less valuable plans. TELUS is citing 'Violations,' but their Terms Of Service (see #5) are utterly vague and self-contradictory. The TELUS plans were marketed as being unlimited, without the soft/hard caps that the other providers had at the time. They were purchased by a lot of peoples' creativity.Cubeecraft: Little Brother and John's Zoe's Tale , which comes out in three weeks. The Expanded People really cut nice stuff -- I laughed even harder watching the video than I did when we were shooting it! Sci-Fi Juggernauts Meet Up - Part 2
See also: Three false copyright accusations and we'll cut off your Internet access
