Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers
The utterly inefficient and overpriced Canadian telecoms exist only because we allow one specific behavior:<p>1. A new local player comes to town, builds their own infrastructure (e.g. connects one building to fiber) and starts offering competitive service.<p>2. Rogers/Shaw/Bell/Telus immediately offer better terms for the residents of that building.<p>3. The competitor runs out of money and leaves.<p>4. The telecoms revert to their usual pricing.<p>This hurts competition, this hurts customers, this hurts long-term infrastructure resilience, but not a single politician ever comes close to even admitting the problem. I understand you cannot do it on the federal level where both major parties are on the telecoms' payroll, but it could be a very low-hanging fruit for someone running for a municipal position to address. But nope, identity politics, words, feelings and fighting climate change with paper straws seem to be what the electorate wants instead. Sad.