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February 26th, 2008The State of Wireless in Canada Sucks – Democamp 17

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Just a few days before the event was scheduled, I was asked by a couple friends if I could fill in a slot at DemoCamp17 in Toronto on the subject of “The state of Wireless in Canada Sucks”. You can thank Dave Crow for the title, who made it up and the theme by preannouncing it on his blog. I could probably have also prepared another 5 minutes about what’s awesome in wireless in Canada (On WirelessNorth.ca we try to cover both where we can find them). However, this is not that latter presentation. Somewhere some body has a video of this presentation, which I hope I can YouTube up at some point. In the meantime, above is the slide share version.

The crowd, who were probably over generous, had this to say about it (Do you think the subject may have touched a nerve?):

More than 400 people packed the Toronto Board of Trade conference hall Monday night for DemoCamp, a loosely organized gathering of Web entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and technology enthusiasts. … But the real crowd pleaser of the night had to go to WirelessNorth webmaster Tom Purves’ fast-paced Ignite presentation on why the Canadian wireless industry “sucks.” – David George-Cosh, National Post “DemoCamp warms up Toronto Tech Crowd“

I caught you at DemoCamp yesterday. I was quite proud to realize that it was a local Torontoian who had published that graph on wireless rates around the world I saw everywhere last summer. I find Canada’s postion a bit ironic given that we were a leader in wireless communication back in the 1950s when were built the cross country microwave network. -JP

fantastic presentation at democamp the other day! nice standing ovations! – Albert Lai

Wirelessnorth.ca preso rocked. Next steps? -Jeremy Wright, B5Media

DemoCampToronto17 was a great success. @tpurves rocked the house with “Why the State of Wireless in Canada Sucks”. All presenters awesome. -Jay Goldman

Ignite presentation “The State of Wireless in Canada Sucks” from Tom Purves could be the best ignite presentation in the history of Democamp Toronto so far. Well done, Tom! – Libin Panwir

http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/02/26/my-democamp-slides-are-posted/ My DemoCamp Slides are posted » ThomasPurves.com

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Will video of the presentation be posted anywhere?
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Amazing work Tom! You’ve roused a rabble by exposing suckage in the dark corners of the Canadian telco landscape, and did so with panache and an enduring commitment to awesomeness. Congrats.
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