Götterdämmerung
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Rogers, the country's biggest phone, internet and interact provider was down all day. Lot's of people couldn't have their drive thru Timmies double double.
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rogers has always been a dogshit provider......it is to networks as tim's is to coffee
and not to be pedantic but its Interac (no t at the end) and rogers isn't a processor, they just provide the transport backbone
and not to be pedantic but its Interac (no t at the end) and rogers isn't a processor, they just provide the transport backbone
Ya,I'm under Roger's,The Fkn Bag Biters!
But that's just My Cellphone...My Home ISP is BELL thankfully! They may B more Expensive than smaller providers;But My Internet has always been SOLID!!!
🤘🏼🤟🤙...SP
That is what Canada gets for allowing an Oligarch like Rogers to take nearly absolute control of the digital network. On a brighter front, stores that were using TD Bank were all up and running flawlessly today.
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To think we almost gave it away to the Chinese.
U still got a home landline SP? The trend here in the USA is to only have a cell phone
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Must be working again. I just got a message someone sent me 15 hours ago.
Yeah. It fucking sucked.
Sorry Bro,I missed this;But Yes I do hv a landline,(Unused tho),It came with the Internet Package.At the time U had to get both;There wasn't a choice,But I don't even hv a phone to plug into the Jack.Now that were talking about it,I should probably grab a cheap phone,(Just in Case)...SP
I still have a landline, and probably always will. Also, still have a working, in-service rotary (500 model). It was in the first house I bought.
i still have a land line,believe it or not.
The lack of competition in Canada goes back to when there were individual telephone companies or ILEC's in each province and national services/networks were managed through the Stentor Alliance. It was cumbersome, services & rates not remotely competitive compared to other markets and from my experience staffed by some of the biggest & most arrogant dickbags going. Stentor was finally disbanded when Bell & TELUS both decided to build out national networks effectively ending the need to have an overriding marketing body. The Rogers terrestrial voice & data networks have their history in the land right-of-way's owned by our two major railroads CN & CP. Those routes made for a logical & practical path to lay copper & fiber that offered business customers a choice other than the ILEC's or Stentor under various brands including Unitel, AT&T, Allstream and others.
Even with there being two or three network alternatives there was still a lack of true competitive choice for enterprise customers meaning high prices and a lack of innovation. IMO that can be blamed on a number of things. One, and something oft cited by the telcos, is Canada is a big country with a relatively small population with 90% of it concentrated within 150 miles of the US border. Canada has this overriding tone of socialism of services meaning that someone in Rankin Inlet (a godforsaken shithole in the far north) should get the same services at the same price as someone in Toronto. That usually means that in some form those 90% are going to subsidize the other 10%. IMO thats neither sustainable or equitable. Choosing where you live comes with benefits & consequences, including what you pay for things....but I digress. The second force that's killed competition is the CRTC, Canada's telecom regulator. They have gone out of their way to stifle competition in both wireline & wireless networks.
For the wireless market the CRTC and Industry Canada (they're the ones who auction off the wireless spectrum needed for mobility services) have IMO taken a very backwards approach to competition with the results being ridiculously high prices because of a lack of competition. For the longest time there were three national wireless networks being TELUS, Bell and Rogers. There are sub-brands like Fido, Virgin, Kodo and others but they're really just a repackaged offer from the big three. Shaw (a company operating in western Canada that traditionally offered cable TV, consumer & enterprise broadband and telephony services) purchased a small regional wireless operator called Wind Mobile, rebranded it as Freedom and started offering services across Canada. They have some very compelling consumer plans particularly if you bundle a mobile service with their high speed internet. But that's now at risk because Rogers is attempting to purchase Shaw with many people, myself included, don't support because its going to eliminate competition. I dislike government interference in the market but I hope the regulators block the deal as we need more providers not fewer.
^^ That's an excellent summation.
thank you
Today's explanation for the outage from Rogers is IMO horseshit:
WHAT CAUSED THE OUTAGE?
Staffieri said that a "network system failure" after a "maintenance update" in the company's core network was to blame for the outage. He said in a statement on Saturday the update caused some routers to malfunction.
"We disconnected the specific equipment and redirected traffic, which allowed our network and services to come back online over time as we managed traffic volumes returning to normal levels," he said.
Technology and cybersecurity analyst Ritesh Kotak told CTV News Channel on Monday that a cellphone connects to a network through towers and a complex "backbone" communication infrastructure with routers and switches, all of which need to be maintained.
"They went to go do an update on one of those critical backbone systems that went horribly wrong and shut down everything coast to coast to coast," he said.
I believe that this started with an update as claimed but that it to 18+ hours to resolve the problem speaks to how fragile the Rogers network is or that their technical staff are worthless (or both).
