On Friday July 8th around 4:45AM, the Rogers network in Canada went down hard [https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-view-of-the-rogers-communications-outage-in-canada/] . Cellular, internet, and cable services were disrupted for customers across the country. The NetBlocks monitoring group estimated the outage knocked
Matthew Gamble
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The cautionary tale of the $5000 pop-up window
It started with a pop-up window on an old Windows PC indicating there was a problem with the computer. The user needed to contact Microsoft support via an 800 number for assitance to resolve the error. Innocent enough, right? That
Canadians deserve service based competition
In my talk a few weeks ago [https://mgamble.ca/a-kafkaesque-nightmare-the-history-of-stir-shaken-in-canada/] at RAG New Orleans I ended by saying "Or maybe the situation is worse. Maybe the regulator fails to see that smaller players – who function without large scale facilities
Reolink NVRs and 172.16/12 - Or how I wasted my evening
Lately I have been looking for an IP Camera solution for my house. The requirements were simple - it needed to be cost effective, support wired and wireless cameras, and not require a connection to the cloud to operate. While
21 Hours in purgatory - a love letter to EWR
On Thursday of this week I was returning from the Risk and Assurance Group conference in New Orleans [https://riskandassurancegroup.org/new-orleans-conference-5-6-apr-2022/]. Because there were no direct flights to Buffalo (or Toronto), from NOLA, my return trip had me going
A kafkaesque nightmare - The history of STIR/SHAKEN and small carriers in Canada
Earlier today I had the honour of presenting a talk at Risk and Assurance Group (RAG) conference [https://riskandassurancegroup.org/new-orleans-conference-5-6-apr-2022/] in New Orleans on the history of STIR/SHAKEN in Canada from the perspective of smaller providers. RAG doesn't
SHAKEN/STIR Adoption - A Lesson in Regulatory Failure
Today at day four of the SIPNOC 2022 conference, Jacques Sarrazin, President & CEO of the Canadian Secure Token Governance Authority (CST-GA [https://cstga.ca]) gave an update on the state of SHAKEN/STIR in Canada and the state isn't good.
"Rube Goldberg" solutions - part one
Rube Goldberg MachineFaithful readers of my blog will know that normally my posts are about regulatory issues, but I thought it would be fun to take a break from the usual depressing posts about the state of telecom competition in