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
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David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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