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why?

Regulatory capture and the regulator being in bed with the incumbents. Not Canada-specific even, this is a common problem in a lot of countries when it comes to telecoms.

Overregulation. Source, I work in telecom in Canada.

And now all telecom companies are required to interconnect, right? Or did that not happen? The government mandated that after the "Rogers outage" - so that other providers can act as "backups", so "that never happens again."

> And now all telecom companies are required to interconnect, right?

No. That's not the case at all.

> so that other providers can act as "backups", so "that never happens again."

Also, no.

Also what do you mean by interconnect? BGP IP peering is a thing for a while. Big folks peer with big folks.

"Ottawa announces it will require telecoms to provide backup for each other during outages following Rogers system failure" - https://www.thestar.com/business/ottawa-announces-it-will-re...

Are you aware of this?

When there is only "telecom" and not "telecoms", Ottawa will have to rephrase that.

Canada will be abbreviated to CCP at that point.

Really? I found Canada one of the least regulated. Although there were a few weird hoops.

Out of ~10 countries I have supported WISP's in, I have never seen a country with less of a barrier to entry.

We did have a theory that our customers were rural, and that the cities might present different issues. But trying to do what they did in Australia would be add 2 zeroes to the end of every cost.

Ask TekSavvy that question.

Or Ebox. In fact some of hurdles were documented on dslreports forum. Starting with wholesale access to cable ( worked OK for a while ) continuing with wholesale access to fiber ( never happens ) and ending with the end of the 'sane' rates for cable ( final nail before Ebox, Destributel and other were sold to Bell/Telus/Cogeco )

> continuing with wholesale access to fiber ( never happens )

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2023/11/06/bell-and-telus-must-offer...

Or you can do what Beanfield did and build out your own fibre infrastructure to customers.

Fighting every municipality and Homeowners Association (HOA, aka Strata) along the way. Running fiber is tough here in the US, even motivated incumbents see a minimum of a 6 month delay waiting for permits in many municipalities to run fiber through existing conduit owned by said incumbent.

Beanfield runs fiber through streets and sewers, and provides networking to office buildings and condominium apartments. I don't think they serve detached houses, as the low density is not worth it.

Or Beanfield.

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