From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
I was actually surprised to notice I have two fibres at the side of my house. One labeled rogers, the other labeled Bell. I guess they both wanted to be able to get customers in the area. I initially thought only Rogers was here given Bell initially said they didn't have service in the area, but now that has changed.
Did your house replace an old one or was it a "green field" development? My guess is that, based on a very rough idea of where you are, it was a green field development (it is expensive to throw away a built home so usually that is in the city where the houses are older and the land value has gone up a lot). It used to be the case that green-field developers would choose which of Rogers or Bell to contract to wire up their development. Not both. Thus Rogers and Bell would compete in how much they rewarded the developer. That may have changed -- I considered it corrupt and so should the CRTC or Competition Bureau. The developers can be builders but they can also sell serviced lots to builders. I would guess that custom home builders are not developers (different scale of operation).
Bell and Rogers are resisting allowing resellers access to the fibre cables. As I understand it, this is defying CRTC regulations.
Bell is allowing access to their fibre here. For example I could get service from teksavvy now if I wanted to switch. 1.5G/940M is what they list as the only option.
Teksavvy is the only genuine third party ISP that I've seen reselling fibre. I have not done a search. They are quite expensive. Probably due to tariffs set by the CRTC (under the direction of the cabinet after the CRTC set a lower tariff). I suspect they pay more to Bell than you would. I don't know why BCE is suffering hard times. They were forced to halve their dividend recently. They have spent a lot building out fibre and the interest rate on debt has gone up a lot.
Freedom mobile is owned by videotron owned by quebecor. Used to be owned by Shaw.
But for cables into the house, in the GTA, I think that they are just a third party ISP. I don't know that, I infer it.