On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 11:04:01AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
At least a few years ago, many developers sold exclusive access to a development to Bell or Rogers (or perhaps other companies). Exclusivity was about 5 years. I have no idea whether it would be economical for the other suppliers to support an already fully-booked neighbourhood after the exclusivity expired. Yet another monopolistic game.
Rogers FTTH is something I don't know much about. It's not like what we have at the moment (and what the vast majority of older neighbourhoods have). I'm not sure what that service looks like but I understand that upload speeds are much improved.
Bell is slow to replace copper with fibre, but Rogers is much slower at replacing coax last mile (I'm a little fuzzy on the architecture of cable).
I have no idea if they do anything exclusive, or if both have wired up the area at this point. And since 4 different developers are doing the area, I guess either Rogers would have had to make a deal with whoever sectioned out the lots, or they would have had to make a deal with each developer. No idea how that works. It's the first time I had seen multiple developers working in one area. It seems they wanted the houses to look mixed so no identical models without 3 lots of each other, and most of the streets have a different developer handle each side of the street. Maybe I will see if I can spot anything labeled Bell next time I go buy to look at the progress, not that Bell or Rogers are good at labelling their equipment. -- Len Sorensen