I thought letting businesses do business without government involvement was peoples ideal state? Allowing private companies to handle debit transactions for a country turns out to be something that should be well regulated. Who’d have thought.
Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
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Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
#82I just can't believe how much relies on just one company Rogers seemingly every debit machine in Canada, anything to do with passports, many doctor's offices. A similar situation occurred just last April (2021). https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/04/20/nationwide-rogers-outage-...
Canada is a country of oligopolies - everywhere from the products you can buy to the Federal Liberal Party's Trudeau Foundation being the receiving end for paid political favours. It is hard to think of areas where there is actual competition in Canada, because there are so few. Media? None, the Federal Liberals fund the approved media and leave the unapproved to fend for itself or die. The approved media is then hig…
Wow the hatred people have for Trudeau.
I'm pretty sure whatever is wrong with Canada's telecommunications industry started long before he was involved in politics.
Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada is a country of oligopolies - everywhere from the products you can buy to the Federal Liberal Party's Trudeau Foundation being the receiving end for paid political favours. It is hard to think of areas where there is actual competition in Canada, because there are so few. Media? None, the Federal Liberals fund the approved media and leave the unapproved to fend for itself or die. The approved media is then hig…
I think it's closer to: CIA -> CSIS (intelligence) FBI -> RCMP (federal police) HN, please correct me if I'm wrong!
I am Canadian and you are correct. OP lost me at "CIA" as well.
Canada has a "spy agency" and it is CSIS as you state.
I don't think many Canadians would think of the RCMP as "federal police" but more "national police" because their have odd responsibilities:
" The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is Canada's national police force. The RCMP is the only police force in the world that acts as a federal, provincial and municipal force. "
Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada is a country of oligopolies - everywhere from the products you can buy to the Federal Liberal Party's Trudeau Foundation being the receiving end for paid political favours. It is hard to think of areas where there is actual competition in Canada, because there are so few. Media? None, the Federal Liberals fund the approved media and leave the unapproved to fend for itself or die. The approved media is then hig…
I think it's closer to: CIA -> CSIS (intelligence) FBI -> RCMP (federal police) HN, please correct me if I'm wrong!
Close, except for an important nuance: CSIS is primarily for domestic intelligence and security and doesn’t do much foreign work. From what I understand, the CIA isn’t supposed to work domestically; for CSIS, working domestically is in their charter.
From what I recall, CSIS was established after the FLQ Crisis in the 1970s, when the government realized that having a single organization responsible for clandestine domestic intelligence and law enforcement was an idea that was rife with abuse.
Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada is a country of oligopolies - everywhere from the products you can buy to the Federal Liberal Party's Trudeau Foundation being the receiving end for paid political favours. It is hard to think of areas where there is actual competition in Canada, because there are so few. Media? None, the Federal Liberals fund the approved media and leave the unapproved to fend for itself or die. The approved media is then hig…
Wow the hatred people have for Trudeau. I'm pretty sure whatever is wrong with Canada's telecommunications industry started long before he was involved in politics.
This is a very common problem with politics in canada these days.
Whatever "current event" has a negative outcome, attribute it to the politician you currently don't like.
Post office in the high-arctic is closing, must be "politician i don't like's" fault.
Never mind basic logic as you posted, these are not new problems. JT hasn't done anything to address the issues, nor did his predecessors.
Our CRTC is effectively useless so little will change until CRTC is overhauled.
Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also … bad routes can cause outages for sure but this long lasting?!? That raises other questions about their ability to recover from what isn’t an entirely unique situation (bad routes).
It’s [time to live]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live ). Once a bad route is published and propagates, TTL determines how long it remains cached. The real issue is, it took Rogers engineers so long to diagnose and address the problem, allowing incorrect route maps to propagate to deep and far corners of the internet. Anecdotally, a friend in Greece roaming with a Canadian Rogers SIM card was unable to use…
I don’t know if they were from Canada but I photographed a family on vacation here in Minnesota and they said their “phones don’t work in this area.” They seemed surprised.
It was an extended family of 14 people and there are plenty of cell phone towers of various sorts that reach where we were.
Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
#87I am in Canada and I do not use Rogers (nor Bell/Telus), although I often communicate with people who do, so it still affects me, although not as much as others.
Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
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Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
#89Wireless internet not working for us except google.com and youtube.com site, its been 2 days i am unable to check my work emails, so much anger and frustration. btw i am in GTA
I had to change the apn to get data to work on my rogers phone. when they brought it up the apn had defaulted to the petro-can one so going into settings and changing it to the other proper rogers apn had it all working again for me.
Re: Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada
#90I thought letting businesses do business without government involvement was peoples ideal state? Allowing private companies to handle debit transactions for a country turns out to be something that should be well regulated. Who’d have thought.
It is highly regulated. Most of the problem with Canada (and many other places including aspects of American business) is that businesses are granted oligopolies through highly customized/lobbied for regulation/laws and then they get shitty because they have no incentive to control costs or invest in improving their offering. The role of government in business should be making sure business isn't obviously harming individuals and breaking up business when they get too big and start exercising market power to win rather than innovating. This doesn't happen in Canada and it's why we suck. If you go look at our stock index the S&P 60 basically everything on there that isn't base resource extraction should be broken up but our government is too bought and paid for to do it.