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February 3, 2023

Canadian Independent ISPs - another one bites the dust

One topic I've been meaning to write about for some time now is the increasing number of independent ISPs who have been acquired by incumbents.   As we start 2023, I was saddened to learn today that another Canadian independent ISP,

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January 18, 2023

Flanker brands are killing independent ISPs

Recently a relative of mine moved and needed internet access.  Having not shopped for residential internet service in a long time, I was shocked to see that Virgin, the Bell "flaker brand" was selling 50/10 VDSL service for $40/

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July 11, 2022

Rogers outage postmortem - is it time for structural separation?

On Friday July 8th around 4:45AM, the Rogers network in Canada went down hard.  Cellular, internet, and cable services were disrupted for customers across the country.   The NetBlocks monitoring group estimated the outage knocked out a quarter of Canada's

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April 19, 2022

Canadians deserve service based competition

In my talk a few weeks ago 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 - are legitimate stakeholders

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August 18, 2020

We’ve been here before, and no, the sky wasn't falling.

The sky is falling, or is it?Over the weekend, the Governor in Council issued an order responding to petitions to the Governor in Council concerning Telecom Order CRTC 2019-288.  For some background, CRTC 2019-288 was a landmark decision by

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