The Frontier Blog
Notes from the network.
Practical writing for multi-site businesses navigating connectivity decisions. Carrier consolidation, migration planning, voice modernization, and vendor strategy, from a partner that runs this work daily across Canada and the US.
The library.
Buyer's guides, migration playbooks, vendor strategy, and diagnostic reads for whoever owns the network at a multi-site business. Read in any order. Each post links to the others where the threads cross.
POTS Replacement · Pillar
POTS lines in Canada don't have a shutdown date. That's the problem.
Most copper retirement coverage is American. The Canadian story is different, and the absence of a hard deadline makes it riskier, not safer, for multi-site businesses.
Buyer's Guide · Pillar
Questions to ask a connectivity provider before you sign anything.
Most RFP templates ask about speeds and prices. They miss the questions that determine whether you'll still be happy three years in. Ten questions worth asking.
Vendor Strategy · Pillar
One vendor or many: how to think about connectivity across multiple sites.
Most consolidation conversations frame this as a cost question. They're asking the wrong thing first. The real question is accountability.
Migration Playbook · Pillar
How to migrate connectivity across multiple sites without breaking anything.
Multi-site migrations fail for operational reasons, not technical ones. Five steps that work at scale, with the contract overlap problem solved.
Complexity
Why managing connectivity across multiple locations gets exponentially harder as you grow.
The complexity is not the number of locations. It is the number of vendors multiplied by the number of locations.
Vendor Disruption
When your carrier gets acquired, the clock starts ticking.
Telecom M&A is constant. The relationship you signed up for can quietly stop existing without your contract changing a word.
About the blog
Why we write this.
Frontier has been running connectivity for multi-site businesses across Canada and the US for more than two decades. Most of the writing here comes directly out of that work: the patterns we see repeat, the decisions buyers actually face, the questions we hear at the start of every conversation. Less product marketing. More practical guidance for whoever owns the network at a business growing past the point where this stuff stays simple.
One vendor. One bill. Let's talk.
If you're tired of juggling vendors, chasing the right number to call when something breaks, or trying to figure out which provider's fault it is this time, we should have a conversation. No pitch deck. No commitment. Just a real read on whether what we do fits what you need.
