Telephone wires in Toronto?

[JWBF]

you are wrong. bell offers phone line internet (DSL) at 25mb/s download with a upload of 7mb/s. rogers offers cable internet (docsis) at 50mb/s download with a upload of 2 mb/s.

Bell Fibe 25 uses FTTN.

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It is an intriguing idea of a turbo hub for "degraded service" areas, especially since "White Spaces", empty analogue bandwidths, are being considered for unlicensed devices after the DTV conversion. Shutting out Bell and Rogers, etc. in providing their exorbitant rates for 3G/4G service scares the right people.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

Bell Fibe 25 uses FTTN.

so does fibe 16, 12, 6. fibe is FTTN with the "last mile" being copper.

 

[Observer Walt]

As an aside, I think we will see Toronto free of power/telephone poles (why not - Mississauga already is) but that will be due to modernizing the various forms of infrastructure we depend on such as power, cable, phone, streetlights, TTC-related, etc. Not due to a massive jump to 3G/4G.

Don't hold your breath. Unlike some other major cities (Montreal), Toronto seems to be in little or no hurry to eliminate overhead wires. They have been eliminated in a few specific locations (Dundas Street in The Junction, for one) as part of street improvement projects, but they remain in many areas. As for Mississauga, many areas have overhead lines, and as far as I know, there is no large-scale plan to eliminate them. I live in a part of Miss. which was built in the late 1960s, when underground wiring was becoming the standard. My immediate area has underground wiring on some streets and overhead wires on others.

 

[lafard]

They are undergrounding wires occasionally - right now they're burying wires in upper Forest Hill - Eglinton/Bathurst/Allen/Ridge Hill from the laneway service.

I suspect this is more because they can't get service vehicles back into the laneways rather than any aesthetic reason.

 

[Dan416]

My subdivison is wireless (but Roger in their infinite wisdom has strung up some wires in the trees). But the major streets (Credtiview, Britannia) definitely do have wires.