i think it's important to realize, is just the legacy in the history of these networks. Part of these histories being really caught up in canadas, a centa colonial state. And so the possibility of these networks to be built isn't something that's accidental or easy to do. For bell's own relationship, it really goes back to the railroad. The same rights of way that the railway run on are now being used for fibre back pones. You know, when we talk about tele communications inter structure, we're not tiing ou stuff that springs up overnight. This stuff has history and it has dependencies and legacies.
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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