Seems every thread about telecom ends up with a rant about Canadian providers. Why is the country so backward? They had Nortel and Blackberry not long ago. Of

Seems every thread about telecom ends up with a rant about Canadian providers. Why is the country so backward? They had Nortel and Blackberry not long ago. Of the major telecom providers, 3/4 of them control news media of various kinds (print, radio, television, streaming services). Politicians seem to bend the country over on behalf of these companies because if you say you're going to do anything else you get relentlessly attacked by the press. The telco regulator (CRTC) has had essentially former execs from one of the major telcos over the past thirty years except for a couple of people who actually tried to make changes. The lowest telco rates in the country are in the one province that has a provincially-owned provider: Saskatchewan. Previous governments at the federal and various provincial levels essentially de-incentivized a ton of tech investment that the country used to excel at. Nortel's story is one of espionage being their undoing and I'm not sure anyone could have done anything about that. Blackberry I think just represented a business unable to pivot fast enough when the tides shifted.