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.

-- Clayton Zekelman Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi) 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E Windsor, Ontario N8W 1H4 tel. 519-985-8410 fax. 519-985-8409