Rogers now provides you the ability to block text messages. Usually you get unwanted text messages from signing up for a contest (free ipad, anyone?) and continue to receive them and be billed for them. Now you can opt out of them. New rules also cap the fee charged for these messages to $40 a month.

Most of the Toronto media has already covered the availability of email alerts about TTC service. The signup page is available on their website. I got the first alert after signing up earlier this week. Here’s what they look like:

from		My TTC <TTC@myttce-alerts.com>
reply-to	11002-1322TTC@myttce-alerts.com
to		xxxxxxxxxxxx
date		Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM
subject		TTC Service Alert [Yonge-University-Spadina Subway Line]
mailed-by	myttce-alerts.com

A section of the Yonge-University-Spadina Subway service is currently shut
down from Eglinton Station to Bloor Station. Shuttle buses are in service.

Last updated Jan 15, 2009 10:37 PM

Sent: 1/15/09 10:37 PM

It’s hard to tell from this email if it was sent timely, but as more people use this service, I bet they get it figured out quite quickly.