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Comment by Scoundreller | Hacker News Reader

Wired or wireless?

Where are you? Most of GTA was back up around midnight (or about 22 hours ago).

For me, it was both the wired home internet which is TekSavvy as well as mobile phone which is on Fido. Both TekSavvy and Fido rely on Rogers behind the scenes.

Ours came back at around 2am EST.

For me, teksavy (wired home internet) never went down at all. Cell phone (fido) came back up sometime when i was sleeping last night/early morning. I am in vancouver.

that's because your teksavvy service is over Shaw or Telus lines. This outage was out of Teksavvy's hands: if you were in their Rogers-based territory on DOCSIS, you were down with the ship.

You left out Bell... does Rogers basically never lease lines from Bell? Or it depends a great deal on location? (everything you said is correct afaict btw)

they do (well, Teksavvy leases Bell lines), just not in vancouver!

AFAIK, Rogers doesn't lease Bell lines ever, not for home internet anything anyway.

I have Teksavvy via Cogeco and had no issues (obviously). I just discovered Rogers owns 41% of their shares though :|

don't worry, as with Shaw and Rogers, Audet family controls the votes through supervoting shares. This isn't a democracy.

Rogers only has 13% control of Cogeco itself: https://crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/cht043.pdf

I want more info, please email me. I put address in my HN proflie

What more info do you want?

*EDT

Why the downvotes, HN?

edit: 1 hour later: I was originally asking why HN was downvoting parent comment, but the masses have since reversed their decision and have been upvoting the parent to this comment. Unfortunately, they have begun to downvote me. Ah well, I suppose it comes with the territory. But hey, no question = no answer...

it's best to ignore the noise. Votes here don't pay the bills so they can't hurt me or anyone.

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