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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-09-07 12:13, Evan Leibovitch
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">The
CRTC is a cruel joke for consumers. It's far too
industry-friendly and has allowed Robellus to get away with
awful shenanigans and anti-competitive behavior for decades.
While it offers <a
href="https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/phone/plaint.htm"
moz-do-not-send="true">a path to complain,</a> I would not
expect such a complaint to be answered in a timely manner or to
your satisfaction.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I
fully agree with Don that this is a human rights issue, and
following that path will likely achieve better results than
fighting Bell on their turf.</div>
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Again, can the CRTC force Bell to provide obsolete service? What if
Bell has abandoned or removed the copper cable to her neighborhood?
What if they've removed the necessary equipment from their office?
How are they supposed to provide the service?<br>
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I am no fan of Bell however, expecting them to provide an analog
phone line back to their office, when everything is moving to IP
over fibre may amount to nothing more than wishful thinking.<br>
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BTW, here's something I worked on around 15 years ago. There is a
hydro control centre, located in Mississauga at the corner of
Lakeshore Rd. and Winston Churchill Blvd. They had a need for
multiple analog phone lines, to connect dial up modems to. Bell
could not supply those lines, so the company I worked for provided
the equipment to do it, connected to a T1 line and I was the one who
installed the equipment to provide those analog lines. Even then,
some special equipment was needed, as Bell's DMS 250 switch wasn't
configured to provide the type of analog lines required.<br>
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