Re: Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months?

[Clayton Zekelman <clayton () MNSi Net>]

It was mentioned:

 It shouldn’t take a parliamentary inquiry or 
pointed attention from Canada’s telecoms 
regulator, or the 
<https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-outage-relevant-to-shaw-deal-1.6565709>fear 
of having its corporate merger with another 
enormous IP network backbone blocked, to bring 
those technical lessons into the light.

But not by name.

At 07:21 PM 12/09/2022, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> I did a ctrl-f for "Shaw" in that article and there's zero mention of it.
>
> I realize that the Internet Society is meant to 
> remain neutral and not comment subjectively on 
> matters of market competition and conglomeration of telecoms.
>
> It's very concerning to me that the Rogers/Shaw 
> acquisition-merger will likely be allowed to 
> proceed, even further reducing competition, and 
> increasing centralization (the opposite of the 
> decentralization mentioned in the article). From 
> the point of view of a Canadian who works 
> primarily for US-based ISPs these days, at least 
> in the US there's seven or eight gargantuan 
> multi-billion-dollar sized last mile cable 
> operators. In many parts of Canada it's just 
> Rogers or Shaw. It's not a good situation at all for the consumer.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Sept 2022 at 07:42, Sean Donelan 
> <<mailto:sean () donelan com>sean () donelan com> wrote:
> Article by Internet Society's Resident Advisor Jim Cowie.
>
>
> Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months?
>
> <https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/rogers-outage-what-do-we-know-after-two-months>https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/rogers-outage-what-do-we-know-after-two-months
>
> September 9, 2022
>
> It’s now been a full two months since Rogers Telecom suffered a nationwide
> Internet outage, leaving tens of millions of Canadians without
> telecommunications services.

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