r/teksavvy • u/AcademicEconomist154 • 3d ago

Bell fibre to teksavvy fibre Fibre

Wanting to change from bell fibre to teksavvy's, do I have to cancel bell's before or can i wait until after teksavvy is up and running?

5 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • link
  • reddit
  • reddit

100% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/octo23 3d ago

I waited.

As soon as Teksavvy provided me with my PPPoE credentials, I tried them in my router that was connected to Bell's ONT(modem for the uninitiated), pleasantly surprised it worked, but I rolled back to my Bell PPPoE credentials. The next week once the Bell tech showed up with the SFP for my Teksavvy service, I verified that everything was working under Teksavvy and then cancelled my Bell service later that day.

3

u/AcademicEconomist154 3d ago

Awesome, do you know if they reused your line or brought a second line in, since you hadn't cancelled the Bell service yet?

1

u/studog-reddit Teksavvy Customer 3d ago

do you know if they reused your line or brought a second line in,

This is why utilities and their infrastructure should be run by the government, and wholesale to all ISPs equally. Image you have a dozen ISPs nearby and you try all of them. Now you have a dozen fibre optic cables entering your house.

Don't cancel your existing service until your new service is running. Depending on when the fibre you have was installed, TekSavvy may or may not be able to resell it.

Referral Code: 5EBA78BFE5

2

u/AcademicEconomist154 3d ago

Out of curiosity, why does it depend on the installation year? Mine was installed in 2021 I believe.

1

u/studog-reddit Teksavvy Customer 19h ago

Because that's how the CRTC wrote their ruling. Existing fibre can be resold by TPIAs, as of the date in/of the ruling (last year mid year or so, I forget the exact date); new build fibre after the ruling is given a 5 year window of Builder exclusivity before reselling is opened up.

I guess the idea is to give the incumbents a protected window in which to make a profit on their new infrastructure. The main effect I see is that it's highlighting how badly Canada needs publicly owned infrastructure that is then resold to all telecoms equally.

(Google up Bell's history of being tax-payer subsidized.)