TekSavvy → Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the bits

But that's the point it's too difficult and expensive to build a last mile network to cover all the area that TekSavvy would like to cover. They need people on the ground all over the coverage area at which point you've built another Rogers or Bell.

Plus they would need billions to get there. TSI does not have that kind of capital or access to it at all.

what is stupid is not even making an effort to lay a fiber network... not even starting... you don't need 100000000 dollars to start and you couldn't lay all that fiber in a day... ****!!!

Loans and loans. It's possible.

They laid fibre into Perth. It is a comparatively easy town to do so . Laying fibre into Toronto on the other hand would be ridiculously expensive. The cost to dig up a street is just phenomenal ... there aren't tunnels everywhere. The trouble is that Toronto is the place you'd really want to lay in fibre to the home to make money because of the population density to make the money. Towns like Perth are great for a trial, but not for making money!

they tired, and sold it. they built it out in the middle of nowhere.

They (TSI) didn't build anything.

Easier said than done.

Having a FTTH network in the middle of nowhere means nothing when 99.999999% of their customer base is still on the incumbent carriers.

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Except that any city worth laying fiber in has exclusive long term contracts with the likes of Bell and Rogers. They have legal monopolies and the only way around it is line sharing.