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Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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Post by specialist » Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

xwolfi wrote: post #394

specialist wrote: post #389

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Yes and: Profitability is predetermined. Converting public goods and services into securities. Ideally. So a public utility issues bonds, instead of stocks.

Not sure what you mean, bonds and stocks are different liabilities and a state utility by definition cannot issue equity or the state would lose ownership. It means they must pay their bond coupons and therefore are very risk adverse and change resistant. A security-emitting entity doesnt need to pay back the debt too much (it should but doesnt have to, via dividend) and therefore can afford to try things to raise re…

Municipal bonds.

Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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Post by hackbinary » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 11:43 AM UTC

martinald wrote: post #397

nsteel wrote: post #395

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You don't even have to leave London to see a night and day difference. I currently live in a new-build flat and have multiple choices for fibre (Hyperoptic are great). I am hopefully soon to be moving less than a mile down the road into a house where my choice is either an offensively slow BT-backed service or an offensively unreliable (so I have heard) Virgin Media service. If you have a new-build flat in a major UK…

You'll almost certainly be getting BT FTTH in the next year or two if you have access to VM. The program is running quickly, something like 6 million premises a year and ramping. VM can be ok or can be congested depending on the area. BT FTTH doesn't suffer from congestion issues (nor does the FTTC). Check https://bidb.uk/ for more information. It collates all the altnets and planned roadworks into one dashboard.

>> BT FTTH doesn't suffer from congestion issues (nor does the FTTC).

That is just not true. BT consumer FTTC is contended up to 40 to 1--that is you are sharing your backhaul with upto 40 of your neighbours. I am assuming that their FTTH services are the same.

Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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Post by jbm » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 2:20 AM UTC

vinay427 wrote: post #384

jbm wrote: post #308

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I'm incredibly thankful to Flair as my flight to Montreal now costs 1/3rd what it cost last year. It's unfortunate that I need to visit a province that discriminates against my mother with its regressive laws, but at least I can pay my respects and get out without contributing to the oligopoly that runs the country.

> a province that discriminates against my mother with its regressive laws Can you elaborate? I only very vaguely follow Quebec news so I'm curious what you're referring to.

She was a teacher and she wore a hijab (thankfully she had retired long before they decided that was a problem)