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Re:Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesse... by jagger27 on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:43PM (#32027640)
If this doesn't show Canadians that telecommunications are a public utility, I don't know what will. The CRTC's (Canadian FCC) own phones are down[1] today because they're a Rogers customer. If that doesn't scream regulatory capture...

1: https://twitter.com/CRTCeng/status/1545421218534359041

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Re:Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesse... by nevereveragain on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:59PM (#32027929)
I mean... it isn't as if the CRTC is going to set up their own telco just to operate their own office.
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Re:Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesse... by exadrid on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:13PM (#32028159)
Yeah, but ultimately they are pretty much owned by the big Telco so we are fucked
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