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A key part of Canada's Internet was just sold to Japanese telco KDDI (money.tmx.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Allied Properties sale of their data centre portfolio to KDDI includes 151 Front Street W., the site of TorIX which is the main Internet Exchange Point for the country. While that's not necessarily an issue, I kinda figured it was at least a little bit notable but I've not seen it mentioned aside from an investment context.

Unfortunately, it seems like it's less consequential than it should be because Bell Canada apparently still refuses to peer at TorIX and only connects to other ISPs through the US which means that eg. if I'm on Rogers in Toronto and you're on Bell, any communications between our computers have to flow through American controlled systems even though we're in the same city because that's how Bell chooses to have things set up.

Whereas, for pretty much everything else in Toronto, it'd move between networks via TorIX. Which is now in a building owned by a Japanese company instead of a Canadian REIT.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Critical infrastructure like this shouldn't be owned by corporations

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, our telecoms network for phone and internet should belong to each province, the same way electricity and Hydro Québec is owned by Québec.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Now let's check who owns the various Hydros. Start with Ontario?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd love to see companies that are owned by the government but exist to make money.

It would be widely unpopular as a business model, but how else do you manage public infrastructure without falling deep into corruption?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We used to have them. They were called Crown Corporations and were in the hands of the provinces that they resided in. However, almost all of them have been sold to private companies instead of being maintained as publicly/government owned services. Saskatchewan still has a few left, but there is a push within the Sask Party to sell them out from under the province.

[–] Cybermass 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird how as the crown corporations have disappeared everything in Canada has gotten more and more expensive 🤔

It's almost like crown corporations make a profit to fund their service, and corporations make a profit to figure out how to make a bigger profit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think you're on to something here...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're funny. That's not how we do things around here.