On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 7:05 AM Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 1/28/21 7:18 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 2021-01-28 5:45 p.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
A proposal for a community broadband, in Toronto!
Several years ago, Toronto Hydro had the same idea. I believe they sold their fibre to Cogeco. Back when I was with Unitel, working with Rogers, we'd use Hydro fibre to reach customers in the downtown core.
Not sure of steps in between but Cogeco ended up with Toronto Hydro Telecom and bundled it with Peer1 which they recently sold to https://www.digitalcolony.com/ and its now called Aptum. https://aptum.com/newsroom/cogeco-peer-1-acquistion-by-digital-colony-closes...
So a large chunk of Ontario's telecom infrastructure is in the hands of a bunch of fund managers. I have a feeling that will not end well for Ontario users of telecom services.
Of course not - - - - but - - - - the fund managers will make a crap load of money in the process. Bell bought MTS - - - - there were promises of some $4+ billion for infrastructure improvements. Don't think I've seen any improvements - - -rather the opposite in fact - - - - things are getting suckier! How can you tell when a mega corp exec or a politician are lying - - - - are their lips moving? Same old same old!