#TekSavvy Fibre installed to replace Bell. I should celebrating, instead my WiFi performance is noticeably worse around the whole house. Ex my office used to get ping: 4ms, 600Mbps down and 500Mbs up. Now I get 8, 300 and 158. The Adorn 854v6 modem isn't delivering a fraction of what it should.
📢 Happy New Year, happy my birthday, and happy time for another #TekSavvyquarterly transparency report.
TekSavvy is the only ISP in #Canada (AFAIK) to publish a quarterly Transparency Report documenting the requests we got from law enforcement agencies, how we handled them, and what we disclosed to them.
Today, we’re reporting on Q2 of 2023, and I’m summarizing that report here. 🧵👇🏼
I think we might just give up on having a home phone. It's cheap enough with VOIP ($10/mo with #TekSavvy) but we rarely use it anymore and should migrate the last couple of people that call us on it to our cellphones.
Wild week. #TekSavvy finished it off filing a new Application to the CRTC challenging a carrier that is removing the network that we have access to and replacing it with one we don’t. It’s a problem across the industry, so we’re asking the CRTC to address this incident and also look into the broader problem.
And then we also filed arguments against Bell’s application to appeal a different CRTC decision.
The #CRTC released an important, long-awaited decision yesterday, opening up some Bell and Telus fibre networks and FTTP services to competition by wholesale-based providers like #TekSavvy. It's taken a bit of time to figure out how to react because, ultimately, it's hard to know what to make of it. Here are some thoughts:
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Oh and one other tidbit that may be of interest: TekSavvy is not for sale. It remains proudly independent and focused on building our networks, serving our customers, and protecting your privacy on an open, neutral Internet.
Now that the obvious damage has been done, the #CRTC finally started working on sharing the Bell fiber network like copper was.
I don't know if they're stupid, malicious or just plain ill equipped to deal with Canadian's telecom, but when are we finally nationalizing the underlying fiber to stop this annoying monopoly from slowing a democratic telecommunication progress?
Can I soon switch back to #TekSavvy who at least fought for the users? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-independent-internet-services-1.7020247
I just went to set up #TekSavvy for my new apartment and apparently the #FiberOptic line going into the building is blocked for #IndepententServiceProviders. I've been with TekSavvy for probably close to 20 years (National Capital Freenet before that).
Especially ridiculous that they can do this going into an #AffordableHousing building and charge tenants whatever ridiculous inflated rates they want.
Hey #Ottawa Mastadonians: I'm on my 13th hour with my #Teksavvy#ISP internet down and no sign it's coming back anytime soon, on top of which I know they're built on the garbage dumpster Rogers network that I'd love to be less reliant on for working from home anyway. Anyone on here have any experiences with #BellFibe, one way or the other?
I'm still a little annoyed by #TekSavvy's positioning in order to be bought out in the coming months, if only because I can predict what will happen:
Bell will come in with a good faith offer to purchase TekSavvy (one of the last big third-party #internet providers!!) for pennies on the dollar, and then they will immediately carve up the customer base. DSL/Fiber customers to #Bell, and Cable customers to #Rogers & #Cogeco
I am very saddened by this news. #TekSavvy was one of the last independent providers of internet (with fiber offerings in Chatham area) and resellers of DSL/Cable, and fought the good fight in trying (a futile effort, as it turns out) to lower prices for customers.
After this, we will be left with the triopoly of telecom providers (#Bell, #Rogers, #Telus) in a market where we already pay the highest connectivity prices IN THE WORLD.
@devnull thoughts on what to use next? I’m quite perplexed as to why #teksavvy haven’t tried to raise their prices, etc. if they are struggling. I’d gladly take a slight mission statement adjustment than a full on exit
Ah, fuck! Apparently #TekSavvy has put itself up for sale... They've actually been putting up a fight against the big duo/triopoly of Canadian ISPs. It'll be a sad day if #Canada loses them as an ISP.
Okay, I'm no corporate #shill but if you're in the market for internet and want to give #TekSavvy a try, their summer sale is on now! I just signed up for 120Mbits service for just under $70/mo all-in.
Am currently using Start.ca, paying the same for half the speed.
I like TekSavvy because they fight the good fight against incumbent telecom providers who have a near-stranglehold monopoly on the market. Recently, Start also got bought out by Telus.