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The Company that Broke Canada
The Company that Broke Canada
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“BobbyBroccoli”
For a brief moment, Nortel Networks was on top of the world. Let’s enjoy that moment while we can. Part 1 of 2. Get Nebula using …
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"Nortel MAY have hosted North America's largest recreational softball league." i believe it! given how many engineers were working there, i know it must've at least been close!
I worked at Nortel from 1996 to 2003. When I started at BNR Motel had factories, a cozy relationship with BCE and a Bell Labs style research arm. It was extremely Canadian,in a really solid, competent way. Then Roth came in and essentially American company.
just about half of my friends growing up had a parent that worked for nortel, so many lives thrown in dissaray so quick
Great video
this video is significantly harder to follow than your other works.
watched on nebula and now here again, great job, worth watching twice
We have still some Nortel SDH stuff running our backbone. Have been since 1996. They are obsolete in sense of speeds and we are using them not so developed countries but still, you can use them. We even sold some of them and bunch of cards also last year.
GODDAMN ABOUT FUCKING TIME HOLY SHIT
Y'know what disturbs me about that intro segment, about canada being increasingly americanized?
That's exactly what's happening to Germany especially, but also many other European Nations right now
And noone is pushing back against it.
AMERICANS BANKRUPTED NORTEL AFTER MOVING THE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS TO THE USA.
A VERY STRANGE REVISIONISTGNHISTORY.
God damn this subject is just not interesting at all
I can't think of a better definition for hubris than being home to North America's largest recreational softball league, with thousands of employees playing in six different divisions.
I work at a telecom and we still use Nortel DMS switches. DMS 10s, 100s, and 500s. Many of these were set up in the 80s, The fact that those things are still operating to this day is astounding. Unfortunately all of them are on the decommissioning hit list. But my oh my what a run they’ve had.
Beautiful video! Going to watch part 2 on Nebula now.
It's insane. Two minutes its all it took to get me insanely invested on a topic I never heard of before.
Thank you so much for this, Mr. Broccoli.
Worked in the kitchen as a washer-up at Nortel in Paignton Devon UK before going to uni. It was a sad day when it shut down as everyone in our village knew someone who worked there. It's brilliant to see the whole story, which I knew nothing about.
I love the way you present all this information. Not only is it unique compared to other long form content creators, but to documentaries on platforms like Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc.
My Grandpa, a pretty savvy investor, had a small 100-share stake in Nortel in the 1990s. I was gifted it as a present, just at the very tail end of Nortel's crazy ride. I got one dividend check for 0.16 cents. I kept it to frame later. Now, I think I might add the lines from Ozymandias to the frame. I knew Nortel's collapse was destructive, but I didn't know it was "the Scottish backing the Panama Canal"-type destructive.
Parochial, but I would love to see a similar deep dive on SASOL
A tale as old as time to be honest, money people take over a beautiful and productive industry and completely fcking ruin it with their incompetence destroying and harming thousands of lives
They recommend it so late bobbert😢