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Really grateful for your answers and encouragement. For context, I’m in Canada where the ISP competitive landscape is dire. In the province of Quebec where I a

Really grateful for your answers and encouragement. For context, I’m in Canada where the ISP competitive landscape is dire. In the province of Quebec where I am, there are “debates” as to who should manage the government-installed electricity poles and be allowed to run any cable on them. Actually, it’s the main national telecom giant who ended up managing those poles… Many small towns’ high speed (i.e. dsl) projects are stalled because of this. I’ll stay on the lookout for an opportunity. :) Thanks

g_p 5y ago
If you are trying to do something about it, get some people together and look at the UK's approach to this - it sounds like you could bring a lot of this to Quebec. Not saying it would be easy - these sound like deeply entrenched problems to resolve - but often showing precedent for how it's done better elsewhere can help spur Commonwealth governments on. In the UK, you would want to point them towards the Access to Infrastructure regulations, and the regulator's approach to "duct and pole access" - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-releases/2018/fibre-investment-bcmr https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-rele... In the UK the "national telecoms giant" has to give equitable wholesale access to ducts and poles, and this is being used to lay fibre to the premises in rural and urban areas.