This morning, I experienced something deeply troubling—and dangerous—from a major Canadian wireless provider. While placing a routine call to a number in Welland, Ontario from a Rogers Wireless phone, the call failed to reach the intended recipient. Instead, what I heard was over 25 seconds of someone else’| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Bill S-209 aims to protect kids from explicit material—but it risks turning ISPs into internet police, undermining privacy, and threatening freedom online. There’s a better way. 🛑📵 #BillS209 #Privacy #InternetFreedom| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Today marks a significant milestone in my professional journey, and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you all. After decades of pioneering voice and cloud solutions, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my new venture: Collaborative Intelligence. This isn’t just a rebranding; it’| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Recently, a colleague of mine transitioned to a "Director" position within an organization, intriguingly without any direct reports. The rationale? The organization's only method to offer the deserved compensation was by elevating them to such a level, highlighting a lack of high pay bands for non-managerial roles. This scenario is| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Tonight I received the following email from the Halton District School Board: To summarize the email - Edge Imaging, a vendor tasked with managing school photographs for yearbooks during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years, experienced a data breach. This breach occurred within the vendor's third-party service provider| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Migrating an organization's communication system to Microsoft Teams represents a pivotal shift, particularly for large enterprises rooted in established dialing practices. Unlike traditional telephony systems, which rely on extensions, Teams emphasizes user identity for calls, enabling users to reach colleagues by simply searching and clicking to call. While this model| Matthew Gamble's Blog
In the realm of network management, automating device provisioning stands as a critical and often challenging task. Recently a customer asked me to help them in automating the provisioning of Mikrotik devices. For those not familiar, Mikrotik produces a wide range of network hardware - routers, switches, wifi access points,| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Recently, the Canadian political landscape witnessed a significant development with the passage of Bill S-210, also known as the Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act, through the Senate. Despite initial reluctance, Senators ultimately passed the bill in April, framing it as a measure to protect children from online| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Today the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released it's long awaited decision on Temporary access to fibre-to-the-premises facilities over aggregated wholesale high-speed access services. This decision is aimed to take action to address the declining competitive intensity in the wholesale high-speed access (HSA) services market, particularly in Ontario and| Matthew Gamble's Blog
For many people, selling a car is no walk in the park. It's an intricate process that can often leave us feeling bewildered, under pressure, and quite frankly, underserved. These feelings can be amplified when we are dealing with relatively niche segments of the market, such as electric vehicles (EVs)| Matthew Gamble's Blog
This is a small tale of how I used #ChatGPT and #AI to "write" and "publish" my first book on Amazon.| Matthew Gamble's Blog
In a recent LinkedIn post, Robert Malcolmson, Chief Legal and Regulatory Office for BCE Inc (Bell Canada) once again used the old tired "it harms investment" argument in response to the CRTCs ongoing consideration of expanding mandated access to high-speed broadband networks while wrongly calling independent ISPs "resellers". In his| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Recently I've been traveling more for work and found myself in need of a good travel router to connect all my devices while on the road. For example, when I'm in a hotel I often like to connect my Amazon FireTV stick to the TV so I can watch my| Matthew Gamble's Blog
For the past few years, I've been running this blog on the open source Ghost CMS and it's been great. Ghost is great for a site like this where the focus is on the content because the focus of Ghost is on creating content (posts), whereas blogging has become a| Matthew Gamble's Blog
I normally don't write or share my personal political beliefs online - the rise of "political tribalism" over the past few years has lead me to avoid posting anything of political nature to social media platforms, instead keeping my posts to be about more universal topics, such as technology, telecom,| Matthew Gamble's Blog
Recently a relative of mine moved and needed internet access. Having not shopped for residential internet service in a long time, I was shocked to see that Virgin, the Bell "flaker brand" was selling 50/10 VDSL service for $40/month with no install fees and a Wifi-enabled DSL modem| Matthew Gamble's Blog
One topic I've been meaning to write about for some time now is the increasing number of independent ISPs who have been acquired by incumbents. As we start 2023, I was saddened to learn today that another Canadian independent ISP, start.ca [https://start.ca] has been acquired by Telus| Matthew Gamble's Blog