Since Big Telecom lobbyists are pushing hard to change the story, we're giving Canadians the tools to push back. We're asking people to visit openmedia.org/newspaper, and write a letter about the broken cell phone market to the editors of local papers.

OpenMedia.ca's newest study, Time for an Upgrade: Demanding Choice in Canada's Cell Phone Market, made a splash in the media and was sent to key decision-makers by thousands of Canadians.

In this latest step in the famous StopTheMeter.ca campaign, the CRTC has responded to Canadians, after citizens called on them to stop big telecom companies from using their control of digital infrastructure to attempt a “backdoor price hike”.

Big Telecom took control of assets that were promised to create new independent choices, and is now using them to gain more control over Canada's digital future. But there's hope: the Industry Minister is looking into this backroom deal right now, and the OpenMedia team has created an online tool at http://DemandChoice.ca where you can tell him to block it.