Is Toronto or the GTA a High Tech Place?

[philliplewis98]

:) Hey all I just wondering is Toronto or the GTA is a high tech Place?

[dragon_drift]

no, we're cavemen.

[45ED]

Presumably for someone living in North York, you already have your answer.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/what-like-live-markham-1146110/2/#post14319353

[projectmoonlightcafe]

Of course, we even have a High Tech Road.

[sandikosh]

Of course, we even have a High Tech Road.

High Tech Road with a lowly Wal Mart and Crappy Tire.

[tsat]

one look at our street cars should answer your question.

[chinesedevil]

Nope.

[mebiuspower]

You mean the same Toronto that had a free wifi network downtown and they sold the whole thing to a private company after like what... 6 months?

[t3359]

Of course, we even have a High Tech Road.


High Tech Road with a lowly Wal Mart and Crappy Tire.

I don't know why it's even called High Tech Road... it's got the Silvercity complex (restaurants, Indigo bookstore), Home Depot, some GO station, some Sushi place, Best Buy, Staples, Walmart, Winners, Sears furniture store, the Brick, Bed Bad Beyond, Crappy Tire, Loblaws, and ends at Honeys Bistro.

The closest thing to tech is BB and Stooples... hardly "high tech". Would be equivalent to naming King station as "York University" or something.

bjl

[t3359]

You mean the same Toronto that had a free wifi network downtown and they sold the whole thing to a private company after like what... 6 months?

who bought it again? haven't heard much of it any more...

bjl

[stealth]

Id say we're middle of the road.

[stealth]

You mean the same Toronto that had a free wifi network downtown and they sold the whole thing to a private company after like what... 6 months?

f-ing Ford.

;)

[mebiuspower]

f-ing Ford.

;)

This is before he is the Mayor so not sure what you're trying to say.

[projectmoonlightcafe]

I don't even know why we still use tokens. I think many developed countries have stopped using it decades ago...lol

[flashy_mcflash]

I think the OP needs to expand on their question a bit, like maybe what cities they consider a benchmark for 'high tech'.

Rockstar Games has a studio here and they filmed Total Recall here as well. That's pretty high tech.

[stealth]

This is before he is the Mayor so not sure what you're trying to say.

man I hate explaining jokes....:(

But lets say it was a comment on the prevailing attitude on this site that everything Miller did was great, everything Ford does is shiite.

[LaserEnvy]

I'd say we are modern, not high tech, especially if you compare us to cities like Tokyo, HK, etc

[t3359]

I don't even know why we still use tokens. I think many developed countries have stopped using it decades ago...lol

I don't know why we spent all the money to change the tokens and update all the machines to prevent token counterfeiting! Should have just bitten the bullet and went to some newer system.

bjl

[MrBriggs]

The only way this question could be more open would be if it was "Is Toronto or the GTA good?"

[mebiuspower]

I don't know why we spent all the money to change the tokens and update all the machines to prevent token counterfeiting! Should have just bitten the bullet and went to some newer system.

bjl

We can't because that guy/girl that sit behind the gate watching you put the token in needs to keep his/her job.

[tsat]

who bought it again? haven't heard much of it any more...

bjl

The network itself wasn't sold, the company that operates it was. Toronto hydro telecom inc (toronto hydro IT services division) originally built and operated the network but that division was bought by cogeco data services in 2008 so they assumed operation of the network.

The 6 months was a free trial period, after which you had to pay for it. It wasn't ever going to be free forever...

This was never a city of toronto initiative, but a private business venture. So don't slag the city for it not being free, seeing as how everyone on RFD thinks private sector business is the answer to everything you should all be sending cogeco your money and saying thank you.

[cwb27]

The network itself wasn't sold, the company that operates it was. Toronto hydro telecom inc (toronto hydro IT services division) originally built and operated the network but that division was bought by cogeco data services in 2008 so they assumed operation of the network.

The 6 months was a free trial period, after which you had to pay for it. It wasn't ever going to be free forever...

This was never a city of toronto initiative, but a private business venture. So don't slag the city for it not being free, seeing as how everyone on RFD thinks private sector business is the answer to everything you should all be sending cogeco your money and saying thank you.

To add to this... THT (now Cogeco Data Services) runs a very large MAN in Toronto in addition to the wireless. LOTS of companies within Toronto use it.

[stealth]

The network itself wasn't sold, the company that operates it was. Toronto hydro telecom inc (toronto hydro IT services division) originally built and operated the network but that division was bought by cogeco data services in 2008 so they assumed operation of the network.

The 6 months was a free trial period, after which you had to pay for it. It wasn't ever going to be free forever...

This was never a city of toronto initiative, but a private business venture. So don't slag the city for it not being free, seeing as how everyone on RFD thinks private sector business is the answer to everything you should all be sending cogeco your money and saying thank you.

shame on the city for not making that clear to the general public. Instead it appeared as though they were trying to take credit for it as some brilliant forward thinking socially conscious step into the future.

[flashy_mcflash]

shame on the city for not making that clear to the general public. Instead it appeared as though they were trying to take credit for it as some brilliant forward thinking socially conscious step into the future.

It was pretty clear to me. I'm fairly certain this was in just about everything I read about it.

[tsat]

shame on the city for not making that clear to the general public. Instead it appeared as though they were trying to take credit for it as some brilliant forward thinking socially conscious step into the future.

Uhm...

I remember the news releases when this network started, and it was pretty clear that it was only free for 6 months.

[Thai]

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