Leaving all politics aside,

In Ontario, there is a big push to run fiber optic internet to all rural areas.

Last year we went through the same mess.

These guys seem to be on deadlines and don't care about anything else.

We live in one county but have a postal code from another county.

So, we had a turf war over our hamlet with an actual fist fight between contractors on my neighbour's lawn.

The cops arrested one and the judge banned him from the area.

I now have two fiber boxes on the side of my home.

They are useless as I rely the Bell 5G microwave dish above it 

ARCADIAN wrote:

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Yes there are too many different players digging with little or no concern about what they are doing. The last 20 plus hour shut down was caused by an "idiot" digging in a swamp area and cut through the line! There are at least 3 different firms digging in our area.

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 As it sounds like Bell is the incumbent phone company in your area, are these players all working for Bell?

Or is Rogers also laying fiber in your area?

I'm a Telecommunications Engineer & Certified Project Manager (Retired) with 35 years Telco experience.

I know Ontario is different than us on the prairies as there is still some Mom & Pop telephone companies there, but if your internet is with Bell, to me the only groups digging in your area to upgrade service would be Bell (the ILEC - Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) and the Cable TV operator ( I presume Rogers)

I am not with Bell my provider uses Bell lines.  I will be glad when they get done digging and installing the lines

ARCADIAN wrote:

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I am not with Bell my provider uses Bell lines.  I will be glad when they get done digging and installing the lines

-- Edited by ARCADIAN on Wednesday 6th of September 2023 11:17:35 PM

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 That makes sense.  As the ILEC, Bell owns the lines in the ground & on the poles.   Other carriers can utilize their lines.

As a side question:  As people are being forced to switch over to fibre optic internet, are your landline phones being automatically switched over to VOIP?

Still have copper wire landline here (fibre op is available), but I have found that VOIP is less reliable, i.e. if the internet goes down, the phone goes down.  Had that happen a few times with my VOIP phones at work (when I worked), but the copper line phone at home has been dead nuts reliable, even during power outages.

ARCADIAN wrote:

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Down again today at 9.30 back at 4:20 Does not affect our phone service. Asked my Internet provider to contact Bell MGT. and to complain about the continual interuptions on behalf of their customers. Not holding much hope!

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I presume you mean it doesn't effect your Bell landline phone service.   If that's the case, then it's not a cable cut.

You are buying your internet service from a 3rd party, and as such they're responsible for the service.   I think I'd be talking to them about a rebate.