Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, November 12th, 2024 at 10:45 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I live in eastern Washington County (borderlands between > cities of Beaverton and Portland) and connect with Ziply > Fiber ... which has been excellent; good service, helpful > installers and phone staff. > > ------ > > Just announced: Ziply has been purchased by Bell Canada. > Gee, I wonder what they are like? > > https://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_phones/bell_canada.html > > On a 1 (bad) to 5 (good) scale review, 1534 reviews average > to 1.2 score (actually 1.1 if you do the math). 1423 "1" > reviews, 82 other reviews, most of those "2" reviews. > The 31 "5" reviews are mostly named individual staff at > the malls ( Georgian Mall Barrie, Upper Mall Canada, > Amherst Centre Mall, Fort Erie Mall, Albion Mall, etc. ). > > 1423 + 82 adds up to 1505 ...presumably some hackers were > so miffed that they somehow added 29 "0" reviews, trying > to drop the average score below 1.1. consumeraffairs.com > seems to be arithmetically challenged as well. > > Trustpilot, Better Business Bureau, Yelp, same story. > Is it too late to ask U.S. regulators to pull the plug > on this deal? > > ------ > > Wouldn't it be wonderful if Bell Canada let Ziply staff in > Tualatin Oregon continue doing their great work? Wouldn't > it be wonderful if the check WAS in the mail, this WON'T > hurt a bit, and I WILL still respect you in the morning? > > Ziply as deployed before now is well designed, robust, > and might not require much service. However, in my > neighborhood, the "backbone" optical cable is strung > between poles overhead, and will need re-splicing if > a tree falls on it (we have MANY trees). Adding drops > for new customers also entails resplicing. > > If ZiplyBell fires the competent adults and hires min-wage > teenagers who weren't good enough to flip burgers at > McDonalds ... well, there goes the digital neighborhood. > > I will keep an eye out for occasional Ziply install trucks > and ask the installers for their opinion. The rest of you > living in the Ziply service area, please do likewise. > > Keith L. > > P.S. based on a handful of visits to Canada, they DO seem > to dote on their malls up there. Probably the climate; > streetside storefront shopping risks winter frostbite. > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
