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To: axial who wrote (45999)8/7/2017 7:20:57 PM
From: aladin  Read Replies (1) of 46821
 
I understand your perspective and after posting I looked up the Canadian version of the Us public utility commission. In Canada this does not exist (for Telecom). I was surprised, but it explains a lot.

Bell Alliant combined Bell Canada with MTT (NS), NBTel and the Newfoundland systems. However Bell achieved huge cost savings at the expense of pre-existing resilience. Not sure this was understood by the national or other regulatory bodies.

In the US each state has its own PUC and ATT and Verizon would not be allowed this level of centralized control and loss of resilience. Here anyone who died during the outage would have their estates taking legal action based on their inability to call 911.

What I told the Provincial government was that IP was developed to add resilience and that Bell's network was actually doing the opposite. It has actually made emergency services substantially less resilient than before the MTT merger with Bell.

As for the cute stories - we had plenty of teenagers totally lost without their iPhones, but there was a serious car accident nearby and a retired physician was seriously hurt and his wife died. What part the very slow ambulance response played is not yet known, but waiting an extra 40 minutes could not have helped.

Btw - Rogers stayed up - so they get design a whole lot better than Bell.

While population density is an issue in much of Canada it should not be in the Maritimes. They are physically small and while they do not have the density of the GTA, they compare favorably to the rest of Southern Ontario.

John
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