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Pure Fibre availability in Calgary (Legacy)
I am a Telus customer, but live in an old area in Calgary "serviced by copper", not pure fibre. I am moving in a month to another area in Calgary (Legacy in the south east). I just got off the phone ...
- I've heard of other areas in Calgary that do not have any TELUS infrastructure. It's up to the developer to bring in the services. TELUS can't just do it on their own initiative. Most developers will bring in all the services because it's a selling feature. I can see situations where an exclusive deal is made however. Shaw HQ is in Calgary after all.
Nighthawk
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Community Power UserSome new areas where all the houses are built by one developer, can mean that the developer / home builder can choose which services are installed. There are a couple fairly new areas in Edmonton where I would assume the developer made a deal with Shaw so that only Shaw infrastructure was installed into the area. That would mean no copper or fibre installed for Telus. It wouldn't be too hard to imagine the same thing is happening in other cities. I'd blame the developer. Running fibre before the area is built is so much faster and easier than afterwards.
Eventually fibre could possibly be added but the neighborhood would be on the waiting list with no guaranteed time of install. Existing copper areas are on the upgrade list already so it could take a long time.
