Funny you should mention that ...... And add Passport lines and the ArriveCan app and Klaus will get his wish......
We used to be on dsl but gave up when it became clear that Bell has lost interest in its wired network.In fairness, Bell is skimping on maintenance too. When landlines went down in Winnipeg, they just shrugged and said “We’ll get to it when we get to it”, till the CRTC stepped in.
Agreed.... With so much of our critical infrastructure, economy and security surrendered to the a very small handful of private companies to give us access to the Interweb, I think the government has legitimate regulatory role here to demand a certain level of robustness and redundancy to their networks ...
The parts of government that have regulatory and legal oversight of the telecommunications sector are split between Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and the CRTC; each has specific areas of expertise and authority - they used (20ish years ago) to work quite well together even though the CRTC was, in my opinion, guilty ofAgreed.
Politically speaking, though, a bit of a can't win.
If they do it, Ottawa'll be attacked for imposing on business.
If they don't, Ottawa is letting business run free in an almost-monopoly way - or a variation of "there they go kissing big (insert industry here)'s ass again."
Ah, gotta love those silos, right?The parts of government that have regulatory and legal oversight of the telecommunications sector are split between Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and the CRTC; each has specific areas of expertise and authority - they used (20ish years ago) to work quite well together even though the CRTC was, in my opinion, guilty ofa bita lot of empire building.
Went shopping yesterday morning at Farm Boy and credit cards were working. Samething in the afternoon at local bar. Fortunately for internet/Tv I have Cogeco sp no problem there.Some Mastercards (Capital One for example) have been working all day. It seems only about half the retailers in my town know this
During the outage we had after the big storm hit Ottawa, internet, cell, power was all out. One of our local garden centers stayed open. Processed credit cards the old fashion way and took cash.The Army Officers Mess in Ottawa was running on a cash only basis yesterday. The credit/debit card processing terminal was dead. A neighbourhood pub near my home (Madison's - part of a Montreal based chain) was closed - they use a network based system to record all transactions, including sending orders to the kitchen and it is connected to (disconnected from, yesterday) the financial system. When the system died so did their ability to conduct business.
I think the government has legitimate regulatory role here to demand a certain level of robustness and redundancy to their networks.
How do you affordably build redundancy when the cost of the physical network infrastructure acts as a gatekeeper to competitors entering the industry? Mandating Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Shaw to sell discounted network access to resellers does not provide redundancy or protection against weaknesses of the backbone networks.Redundancies, even limited ones should be built into the business model. Works both ways as the pandemic showed (ie the ability to shift to online and delivery).
How do you affordably build redundancy when the cost of the physical network infrastructure acts as a gatekeeper to competitors entering the industry? Mandating Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Shaw to sell discounted network access to resellers does not provide redundancy or protection against weaknesses of the backbone networks.
How do you affordably build redundancy
Plenty of ways for local businesses to build redundancies. Some adapted some didn’t. Those that don’t tend to go under.How do you affordably build redundancy when the cost of the physical network infrastructure acts as a gatekeeper to competitors entering the industry? Mandating Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Shaw to sell discounted network access to resellers does not provide redundancy or protection against weaknesses of the backbone networks.
That sounds nice but actually says nothing about how we do it.Plenty of ways for local businesses to build redundancies. Some adapted some didn’t. Those that don’t tend to go under.
Governments should though loosen some rules to allow for it.