This week on teont save ups, i talk with Kelviey fenwick about the recent rogers outage in canada. Fenwick: The government has neglected its role as a regulator of these services for far too long. We say that there may be some room for competition in service delivery, but ultimately, telecom is a natural monopoly,. That means that the government has an important role to play to insuring those networks serve the public good.
Paris Marx is joined by Fenwick McKelvey to discuss the massive outage at Rogers, why it’s challenging the narrative that more competition will fix Canada’s telecom sector, and the need for better regulation and even public ownership.
Fenwick McKelvey is the author of Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed. He’s also an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University and a director of Machine Agencies at the Milieu Institute. Follow Fenwick on Twitter at @mckelveyf.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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