[GTALUG] Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto

[o1bigtenor]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 7:05 AM Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> On 1/28/21 7:18 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
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> On 2021-01-28 5:45 p.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
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> A proposal for a community broadband, in Toronto!
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> Several years ago, Toronto Hydro had the same idea.  I  believe they sold their fibre to Cogeco.  Back when I was with Unitel, working with Rogers, we'd use Hydro fibre to reach customers in the downtown core.
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> Not sure of steps in between but Cogeco ended up with Toronto Hydro Telecom and bundled it with Peer1 which they recently sold to https://www.digitalcolony.com/ and its now called Aptum.
> https://aptum.com/newsroom/cogeco-peer-1-acquistion-by-digital-colony-closes/
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> So a large chunk of Ontario's telecom infrastructure is in the hands of  a bunch of fund managers.
> I have a feeling that will not end well for Ontario users of telecom services.

Of course not - - - - but - - - - the fund managers will make a crap
load of money in the process.

Bell bought MTS - - - - there were promises of some $4+ billion for
infrastructure improvements.
Don't think I've seen any improvements - - -rather the opposite in
fact - - - - things are getting
suckier!
How can you tell when a mega corp exec or a politician are lying - - -
- are their lips moving?

Same old same old!