The CRTC should ensure telecoms offer plans for consumers who only need wireless service on an occasional basis, according to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC). The consumer group filed a Part 1 application with the regulator asking it to direct telecoms to offer the plans in the same way as low-cost data-only plans. The application, dated April 13, follows a March decision in which the CRTC told Canadian wireless carriers they had to offer low-cost data plans and asked them to file proposals on how they plan to do so. PIAC asked for its application to be combined with that...
Toronto-based KnowRoaming has appointed a former BCE Inc. executive as the executive chair of its Telna-KnowRoaming subsidiary. “This addition to the executive team will help Telna-KnowRoaming deliver on its mandate to become the global standard for 'SIM free' Multi-IMSI wireless networks, providing low cost, SIM-free connectivity for any wireless device to every wireless network, worldwide,” Thursday’s press release said. Telna-KnowRoaming’s technology enables equipment manufacturers “to provide network services without...