<html><head></head><body>You don't want Xplornet to get any bigger - they are a rolling dumpster fire in many different ways.<br>I think more competition is a good thing, yet I'd prefer Xplornet went out of business altogether. Or at least nowhere near here. Thankfully, Starlink will probably accomplish this.<br>-Adam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 15, 2021 3:01:38 p.m. CDT, Scott Toderash <scott@100percenthelpdesk.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">To whom? Xplornet. They picked up a piece of the MTS customer base when <br>Bell bought them. They haven't done a lot with that yet but there are a <br>couple of stores in Manitoba, and Xplornet is a national company.<br><br>They would have to make a bid to pick up any divested customers if/when <br>that time comes but they were successful last time.<br><br><br><br>On 2021-03-15 2:39 p.m., Glen Ditchfield wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On Monday, March 15, 2021 1:55:42 P.M. CDT Chris Audet wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm not a telecom guy, but is this really a concern?<br></blockquote><br>Some time ago, the federal government believed that Canadian cell phone rates<br>were too high because of lack of competition, and worked to get new outfits<br>like WIND Mobile into the market. None survive. WIND died down and is now<br>Shaw's Freedom Mobile, which could get folded into Rogers/Fido/Chatr.<br><br>Maybe the CRTC will decide that the big 3 shouldn't own all the spectrum, and<br>force Rogers to divest Freedom/Shaw Mobile. But to who? SaskTel? Richard<br>Branson?<hr>Roundtable mailing list<br>Roundtable@muug.ca<br><a href="https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable">https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable</a><br><br></blockquote><hr>Roundtable mailing list<br>Roundtable@muug.ca<br><a href="https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable">https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></body></html>