[kwlug-disc] FibreConnect info

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

> From: Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> Cc: Mikalai Birukou <mb at 3nsoft.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 13:04:06 +0000
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] FibreConnect info
> 
> On 2026-05-08 18:11, Scott King via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> > There are some folks from the city surveying for upcoming fibre lines in the Westmount neighbourhood.
> >
> > I like the idea of ditching Rogers and getting fibre to the home (fibre-to-the-premise — FTTP as they say). It seems to piggy back on Telus under the hood.
> >
> > Has anyone heard of them?
> >
> > Photos of the pamphlet.
> >
> > https://share.icloud.com/photos/0efBll3QbBb0VITahIwYAbXQg
> 
> Forest Heights neighbourhood here.
> 
> We had the following on our crescent.
> - Houses already have phone and other cables entering premises. On easements, ... and you plant your flowers on other patched.
> - Contractor comes and lays cables from the street according to their whatever. And their whatever goes randomly in respect to existing places of where you expect cable will be, i.e. on the opposite side of the house, meaning we have to redo internal cabling from one side to the other.
> - I had to personally tell people "not to dig", "not allowed on property", while poor chap with the shovel is scared of not doing "what he is told to do". The dark fiber is still sticking out in a wrong place. <rant>Some of this social f***ery wastes everybody's resources. Kinda off tech topic, but you really start to appreciate that Russians and Germans were just mostly normies, and this is how human system is abused, when you look at how each gear is connected.</rant>
> - A few houses on our crescent had fiber on the wrong side. We insisted on seeing supers/whatever. They did come, one or two visits. Of course, none of those visits were necessary in normal org. I mean, we were not needed. <rant>My grandfather used to tell me stories from USSR times. No difference. It is about human pyramid, not about its colour.</rant>
> - Finally cables were layed properly. And with my neighbour we even put fiber and coax into conduits under out front lawns.
> 
> My neighbour was more proactive with another chap down the crescent. All was good thanks to them. Credit is were credit is due.
> 
> My neighbour was excited about fiber, or, ... "Fibe" as Bell used to put it in a flier. Only two years after installation he has stuff on level that he was promised. All while he was paying to Bell. <rant> ... insert your own rant here </rant>

"Fibe" is a deceptive "brand", not a technology.  You can get Fibe on a 
copper connection.

In my Toronto neighbourhood, about half the houses have FTTH available 
from Bell.  That seems to mean that you cannot have copper, long term, 
which cuts out third party ISPs.  In my case, a construction accident cut 
the copper trunk and Bell refused to fix it.

Teksavvy can resell Bell's fibre here.  I wonder why they cannot do so in 
Westmount.  They cannot share the fibre into the home: it cannot have both 
Bell and Teksavvy service.  I kind of tricked them to provide two fibres 
into my home so I currently have both Bell and Teksavvy over fibre (an 
expensive habit).

Both Bell and Rogers are cutting back on capital expenditure.  That may 
mean that if your neighbourhood doesn't have FTTP/FTTH now, it might be a 
while before it does.