<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Xplornet is a small New Brunswick rural ISP, and the only reason we even hear about it here in Manitoba is their Xplore Mobile division that came about from the required BellMTS divestment of a certain percentage of MTS's mobile customers.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">That deal included a few years of
Xplore Mobile
having access to Bell/BellMTS infrastructure (towers, roaming, etc.) while Xplore Mobile
establishes its own mobile network. The trouble is,
Xplore Mobile (and parent Xplornet) have no such money, and I don't think they've been doing anything of the sort, so that rolling dumpster fire (to quote Adam) should crash spectacularly quite soon.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Consider that much richer Shaw has still done almost nothing with their Freedom Mobile (formerly Wind Mobile).<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Probably some other reasons as well, Adam?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> <br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2">Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331<br></font></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 20:51, Alberto Abrao <<a href="mailto:alberto@abrao.net">alberto@abrao.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 2021-03-15 3:50 p.m., Adam Thompson
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<blockquote type="cite">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.</blockquote>
<p>I am still trying someone to rave about Xplornet.<br>
</p><p>Kind regards,<br>
Alberto Abrao<br>
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