said by sbrook :

Did you call Rogers????

said by drunkgoat :

internet, tv and home phone were all down yesterday.

That's what you get for putting all your eggs in one basket.

said by sbrook :

If I chop a telco cable, which is significantly harder to cut I might add. I could cut 1 line or a few lines, or a few hundred lines. And what do I cut ? Just phone. No repeaters.

said by sbrook :

You don't live where I do!

said by sbrook :

But the point that I was trying to make is that generally speaking, if you happen to cut an arbitrary cable, be it Bell or Rogers, the chances are far higher that if you cut a Rogers cable, you'll create a scenario with far higher impact and loss of services than if you cut a Bell cable. It MAY happen that you cut off a whole town from phone or cable/phone/internet service with either and that I grant you. But given the sheer miles of phone cables of varying service levels, from 1 to hundreds of lines, the impact of any *arbitrary* cable cut compared with a cable cut is going to be less.