On July 8, the rogers network went down for virtually the whole. What was the effect of that outage, and what did it reveal about the industry? I think there's two ways to approach the outage. One critical question is how is it that roger's network was designed and built such that everything could all be unilaterally affected by this one crash ? It raises really interesting questions about their network design. The second issue is one of kind of concentration. And we talk about this in the abstract, where market concentration is how much these companies own.
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.
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