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Something has changed with Jason's Industry Insights, and I want to be straight with you about why.

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Amazon Leo Routers Exempt from FCC Ban - The subsidiary, Eero, is the third company to receive the designation, along with Adtran and major router manufacturer Netgear. The exemption applies to routers made for Amazon Leo, the e-commerce giant’s attempt to compete with SpaceX for the satellite broadband market.

My Take: The FCC is making an exception to its recent ban on foreign-made Wi-Fi routers, allowing Amazon’s subsidiary Eero to continue supplying routers for its Leo satellite broadband project.

The FCC introduced the ban in March due to cybersecurity concerns, since most routers are manufactured overseas. But in this case, Eero received an exemption, joining companies like Adtran and Netgear.

The key detail is that these routers are tied to Amazon’s satellite internet push, which is competing with Starlink.

🇨🇦 Final rates and final terms and conditions for aggregated wholesale high-speed access services over fibre-to-the-premises facilities - With more competition in the marketplace, all providers have to work harder to win Canadians’ business. Strong competition means Canadians benefit from innovative new plans, better customer service, and greater affordability when buying home Internet and other communications services.

🇨🇦 CRTC Final Fibre Rates End Independent Internet Competition for Consumers in Canada - Independent ISP market share has halved since 2020. Today’s rates guarantee the rest will follow.

My Take: The final rates have been published and form part of one of the appendices in the first link.

As for the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC), independent ISPs have already seen their market share drop from 8.4% in 2020 to 4.2% in 2024, and these new rates could push that even lower.

The concern is that the wholesale prices are too high for smaller providers to compete. In some cases, large carriers like Bell can sell retail fiber plans at prices up to 40% lower than the wholesale cost independents would pay, before adding any of their own costs.

At the same time, most of the “competition” created by these rules is expected to come from big players like Bell and Telus entering each other’s markets, not from new or smaller competitors.

This concern is that this decision could reshape the Canadian internet market by reducing real competition and giving more control to a small number of large providers.

QUICK HITS:

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Resilience is no longer a nice-to-have - visibility across infrastructure is becoming a priority and necessity for sovereign and secure infrastructure.

Someone digging where they shouldn’t be, while not following processes. Or a ship anchor dragging across a cable that carries 99% of the world’s internet traffic.

Critical infrastructure is everywhere: underground, underwater, connecting cities, countries and continents. But the monitoring? It’s barely evolved in decades.

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New JV “Sterlumiq” targets smarter power cables - Sterlumiq joint venture will modernize power and telecom networks using smart fibre-optic monitoring systems.

My Take: The platform they’re building, called CAMOS, uses fibre-optic sensing and analytics to monitor cable performance in real time. That means utilities can detect faults early, locate issues precisely, and move from reactive fixes to predictive maintenance.

The impact is measurable:

This is about making core infrastructure, power grids and telecom networks, more intelligent without rebuilding them from scratch.

What the tangle of cables under L.A.’s streets can tell us about the city - Beneath our feet lies a hidden nervous system: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables invisibly snaking under the streets of Los Angeles and the Bay Area, like strands of angel hair. These cables carry the lifeblood of the information economy — phone calls, messages, data streams. They transmit our collective digital stories, but they could also tell new, crucial stories of their own — stories about traffic patterns, city life, infrastructure health and even earthquake risk.

My Take: Researchers showed that a 50-kilometre stretch of underground fiber in San José can detect vibrations and turn them into insights about things like traffic, construction, and even earthquake risk.

The key idea is called “opportunistic sensing,” where infrastructure built for one purpose (internet connectivity) is reused for another (real-time monitoring). Fiber cables are sensitive enough to pick up tiny changes like vibrations, temperature shifts, or ground movement. We also call it “Multi-Use” infrastructure.

This means cities could:

All of this happens without cameras or personal data, since it’s based on physical signals rather than identity tracking.

This is a huge opportunity for existing infrastructure owners to turn fiber into a massive, low-cost sensor network, giving cities better data without building new systems or increasing surveillance.

Test Like You Fly - Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket. “Test Like You Fly” launches a series that takes you inside the factories and onto the launch pads where humanity's future in space is unfolding.

My Take: It’s a very good video.

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🇨🇦 Celestica And Bell Partner On Sovereign AI As Valuation Stays Elevated - Celestica and Bell have agreed to build Canadian sovereign AI infrastructure tailored for sensitive government and regulated industry workloads. The partnership aims to keep critical AI data and processing under Canadian control by combining Bell's national network and cloud with Celestica's hardware capabilities.

My Take: Simply, the goal is to keep sensitive AI data and workloads inside the country, especially for government, defence, and regulated industries.

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🇨🇦 Alberta unleashes hackers on Ottawa to make the case for AI - The province invited more than 1,000 tech enthusiasts to sift through federal data to uncover apparent waste or misuse of funds. Tweaking Ottawa’s nose was merely a side benefit.

My Take: “Matthew Kirubakaran, an Ottawa local, found 73 potential shell companies that collectively received $2.4 billion in government grants. He presented his findings as an interactive role-playing video game”

Advanced AI-powered table-tennis-playing robot can match up to the professionals — watch it in action - Using high-precision cameras and an AI system, Sony AI's Ace is revealing the advancements robotics.

My Take: This is about AI learning to operate in the real world. Once it can react this fast and this precisely, it’s only a matter of time before it starts showing up in real jobs, and takes over the world :)

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Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’ - The judge also warned Musk and Sam Altman to curb their “propensity to use social media to make things worse outside the courtroom” after both sides traded attacks online.

My Take: The courtroom fight is just the surface. The real battle is over who owns and controls AI, and neither side is as neutral or “for humanity” as they claim. Musk argues he helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit to protect humanity from dangerous AI, but claims it has shifted too far toward profit and corporate control, especially after major investments like Microsoft’s. OpenAI pushes back, saying Musk knew about the changes and is now acting as a competitor.

Satellite Connectivity Becomes the New Anchor for a Fragmenting Wearables Market - As the global wearables market shifts away from a single-device focus toward a fragmented ecosystem of smart glasses and rings, satellite connectivity is emerging as the critical technology for maintaining persistent safety and utility.

My. Take: Wearables are no longer just fitness trackers or phone accessories. They’re becoming standalone safety and communication tools that work anywhere on Earth. Will people pay for “just in case” connectivity, or does it only matter after something goes wrong?

OpenAI is making its own phone to compete with the iPhone: report - OpenAI’s hardware ambitions have been no secret, but the company has long indicated it’s not making a phone. But a new report says that’s no longer the case, and an iPhone competitor from OpenAI is now in the works.

My Take: OpenAI is now planning to build its own smartphone, aiming to compete directly with the iPhone. The expected launch is around 2028, with help from big chip players. The big idea is that this wouldn’t be a normal phone. It would be built around AI agents, meaning the whole experience could feel completely different from today’s apps and operating systems. This is one of the first serious attempts to rethink the smartphone in the AI era, not just add AI features to existing devices.

🇨🇦 Manitoba to ban social media and AI chatbots for kids - Premier Wab Kinew made the announcement at a fundraising gala in Winnipeg over the weekend. At the event, Kinew criticized social media platforms for attempting to get kids “addicted” to them. “They’re doing these very awful things to kids all in the name of a few likes, all in the name of more engagement, and all in the name of money,” he said.

My Take: Protecting kids makes sense. But actually enforcing a ban is the problem. Other countries already show kids can easily get around it using fake IDs or workarounds. Perhaps its like everything else and education is more of the issue

Halter’s new Starlink-connected collars: The costs vs its land-lubbing mast system, the size of the market it opens up - Halter has revealed what founder Craig Piggott calls its “biggest ever updates” – a new partnership with SpaceX and new fertility management features for beef cattle.

My Take: Connected cows are big business

🇨🇦 Is Canada’s Arctic spending spree really rooted in foreign policy? - Arctic relations with the U.S. have influenced recent Canadian debates over how to restructure the country’s security posture in the region. On March 12, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a historic security and infrastructure package for the Canadian Arctic.

My Take: Canada isn’t really spending on defense, it’s spending to prove the Arctic is actually ours. The real test is whether people can live and thrive there, and not military strength, because without that, sovereignty is just talk.

Can chickens really run around with their heads cut off? - There's lore about chickens surviving from seconds to months after their heads are chopped off, but what does the science say?

My Take: this will probably be the link that most people click on…

My Take: Shocking.

IMDb: 7.2/10

JMDb: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/10 (5 episodes in.. still not sure.. but I’m still watching)

HBO’s DTF St. Louis is a sly, uncomfortable, and sharply observed dark comedy that uses a “suburban swingers app” hook to dig into aging, masculinity, and quiet marital resentment.

The series follows Clark, a tightly wound TV weatherman, his affable best friend Floyd, and Floyd’s wife Carol as one impulsive decision pulls their sleepy St. Louis cul‑de‑sac into a fog of secrets, sex, and suspicion.

Rather than leaning on shocking twists, the show thrives on its queasy, slow-burning tension, mixing cringe‑comedy with a genuinely uneasy sense that something has gone very wrong just off‑screen.

Performances are tightly calibrated: Jason Bateman keeps Clark emotionally opaque, while David Harbour plays Floyd as a big‑hearted sad sack whose neediness is both endearing and alarming.

Without giving away the resolutions, DTF St. Louis works best as a character piece—about people desperate to feel alive again and the collateral damage that comes with it.

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