On 2021-01-29 8:05 a.m., Alvin Starr via talk 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/ <https://www.digitalcolony.com/> and its now called Aptum. https://aptum.com/newsroom/cogeco-peer-1-acquistion-by-digital-colony-closes... <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.
Conversely, the US FCC (just) reached out to Vint Cerf, Dave Taht and others to advise on the $3.2 billion "Emergency Broadband Benefit Program", instead of watching their infrastructure just circle the drain (;-)) --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dave.collier-brown@indexexchange.com | -- Mark Twain