THE INDEPENDENTS: Beanfield Metroconnect wants to humanize telecom

By John Bugailiskis

FASCINATED BY TELEPHONES as a child, Dan Armstrong remembers thinking Bell Canada was “just the coolest thing in the world” and he marveled at how phones changed the world by allowing people to talk to each other anywhere.Growing up in the Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton area, Armstrong’s family home backed onto a park where he and his friends would build forts. He figured out then that if he connected a phone receiver and a battery in series with another one on the other end, he could connect all the forts together so they could talk with each other.Today, Armstrong is...