On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 7:05 AM Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]> 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/ and its now called Aptum. > 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.
Of course not - - - - but - - - - the fund managers will make a crap load of money in the process. Bell bought MTS - - - - there were promises of some $4+ billion for infrastructure improvements. Don't think I've seen any improvements - - -rather the opposite in fact - - - - things are getting suckier! How can you tell when a mega corp exec or a politician are lying - - - - are their lips moving? Same old same old! --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
