Many hours wasted here over the years, but definitely a very big net benefit.

Except it is very anti-tourist. My "zip code" has letters in it. I can't type it in, thus pay at the pump has ceased to work at most gas stations in the US. Major pain in the ass.

Bell/Rogers/etc are a monopoly. AKA a market failure, thus heavy government regulation is required since there is no real competition. Allowing bandwidth to be charged at 2$ per gigabyte is ridiculous when it really costs pennies. Have all the charges you want, but at 7 cents a gigabyte.
Bell/Rogers/etc are in the TV business, they want expensive bandwidth charges to run companies like netflix out of business.
What I find appalling is that the CRTC (regulator) should have investigated what bandwidth actually costs (all costs) and then put a proper return of 15% and regulate it.

I want a IPv6 /48 prefix from my ISP. That is all. Tunnels are great for testing, but really they have had years and years and years to prepare.

"That 10 MHz bandwidth can provide 60 Mbit/s of data throughput."
You sir have just won a Nobel prize if you can prove that!

Troll? What is the relationship between cows eating grass and not needing antibiotics. Dairy cows are given antibiotics to treat mastitis. That probably is 90% of antibiotic use on a dairy farm. Unless you are talking Monensin?

n=1

Fusion splices are the only acceptable option because you can't afford to have a 0.1 dB splice on a long fiber. Too much loss will upset your whole link budget and you will not get an acceptable SNR at the far end.

BTW, I have never read how a fusion splicer works, but all the ones I have used align the fiber and look like they send a current between two metal contacts for ~0.2 seconds that fuse the fiber. I'm pretty sure ultrasound isn't used. When you are trying to align two fibers exactly, vibrating them doesn't sound like a good idea.