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What's holding up Canada's internet?

Gerhard Mack

So very true. A few years back I worked for a Montreal ISP that had the idea to rent the copper lines directly and offer their own DSL service.

We quickly learned the downside to that plan: If the customer is too far from the Bell facility Bell runs the internet access through a "Remote CO" (think fibre to the neighbourhood) Can we install there.. well no.. Can we install our own Remote equipment? As per the CRTC the answer to that is no. So we were stuck offering something a fraction of the speed of Bell unless we wanted to go back to reselling Bell's Internet service.

Local loop unbundling is useless in Canada. If Bell had to offer LLU on fibre, that would change which is why they have fought doing it and most likely why they have held off doing fibre do the home.

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