Pollspotting! – small dead animals

“Would you support the sale of SaskTel?“
It’s two votes in one! Regina and Saskatoon.

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One smart guy this Brad. Unlike the crapshoot going on in Ontario and Alberta right now.

Now we find out how conservative Saskatchewan really is.
Hint: it isn’t
But they are more conservative than brad wall

Not sure Bell is much of an improvement

Government has no business being in business.

Hm, more folks do NOT support selling Sasktel,guess Saskabushers still have more faith in government than private enterprise.
But with Bell interested, maybe they’re right.

Seems like a better opportunity for Telus to me.

UNION JOBS and Pensions UP FOR SALE. The contracts and Pensions would all be honoured.

I used to be an unwavering supporter of SaskTel. 30% of the employees are great, about another half do their jobs well. And then there’s the 20% that really stink. After one particularly egregious case of “Why should we provide service?” I switched about a dozen phones to Telus. Service is much better now.

Well, it is on CTV’s site, but you are probably right, anyway.
I have been thinking Sasktel is more of a liability than a crown jewel for several years. Better to let the giants out new tech, a local company is bound to get left behind. Don’t want to see rural coverage or service decline, though.

“UNION JOBS and Pensions UP FOR SALE.”
Good. Let’s see if the private sector can afford them without the backstop of a bottomless tax trough.
I love competition.

My Dad was a lineman, part time, with a private rural phone company. It was OK until the 60’s rolled in.
In the 1970’s and 80’s, Sask-Tel came out to the farms, got rid of the overhead wires, gave us buried cables, private lines, touch-tone phones and later on internet. None of the private companies were interested in making those improvements. In urban settings, Sask Tel installed fibre optics and other high-tech improvements. We the taxpayer paid for part of the equipment, along with our monthly fees. Would it be fair that a private company come in and buy that equipment for (perhaps) a nickel on the dollar?? Not when it’s running well and making money.
Sask-Tel need to become more efficient if it wants to stay afloat. And it needs to start making a profit for Saskatchewan. And trust me when I tell you that if Bell takes over, you’ll be the most disappointed customers in Saskatchewan history. Telus is OK, but Sask-Tel is still the best choice.

Living in Alberta I had Telus. Commercials promoting other cell companies always referred to fewer dropped calls. Didn’t know what they meant.
Move to Sask in 2010. Sasktel mobility. Dropped calls 4 out of 10 calls. Sometimes calls were dropped 4 times in one conversation. That’s right in the city.
Sasktel provided a service to rural Sask that private companies would never do. But now technology seems to have passed them by. Time to move on.

I do agree with your last comment that technology seems to have passed them by, somewhat. It’s up to Sask-Tel to fix that!! As for dropped calls, topography has a lot to do with that! This phone is state of the art, but expensive!!
https://www.iridium.com/

Classic mythology. Those improvements came at an enormous cost. And they have hurt Saskatchewan competitiveness.

Bell.
pfft.
here’s MY experience with Bell. 1st bitter taste was waaaaaay back when phones were hard wired and having just bought my first place at the tender age of 27, I asked the techie to moooooove his hand a few feet down the coil sose I didnt have to crane my neck to make a call.
nyet, nada. ixnay. nein. came the response.’but you can have lots of cord for an extra monthly fee.
fee fie fo fum fee.
it worked out to additional annual charge about oh, 100 times the cost of the 2 feet of 4 conductor 20 +/- guage wire.
so the entire time I lived there and when I used the phone and craned my neck, it reminded me of the fee fie fo fum fee techie.
fast forward to last year. we got a xpressvu PVR acting up. what are my options says me. send it back says they. but I spent >$1,000 over the course of the time it took to accumulate the movies, episodes and documentaries in the hundreds. many of which hang the playback. what are my options?
send it back for a replacement.
Are you going to transfer the programming that is playable? can I keep the old one and send it back when Ive watched everything I want from it?
ixnay ixnay ixnay.
well what about negotiating a credit for loss of the playback feature I paid a lot of money for?
ixnay ixnay ixnay. In 2 words, ‘TOUGH BEANS’, because you see, electronic eqpt can fail, not our responsibibity so tough beans. send it back and we will send a replacement.
ixnay ixnay. Bell Canada. be forewarned.

I don’t know all the issues around this quagmire, but my instincts tell me that anything is better run privately where the bottom line matters.

None of the private companies were interested in making those improvements. In urban settings, Sask Tel installed fibre optics and other high-tech improvements. We the taxpayer paid for part of the equipment, along with our monthly fees.
Paul always likes it when Peter pays for his stuff…

exactly strad. you chose to live in the sticks….deal with it.

“Would it be fair that a private company come in and buy that equipment for (perhaps) a nickel on the dollar??”
1. The $9 billion 401 was off-loaded for $3 billion
2. The Skydome costing $570 million was sold for $25 million
(My source is wikipedia, but I am open to correction if the figures ae unreliable.)

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