Canada Says High-Speed Internet Is 'Necessary To The Quality of Life For Canadians'

[hixbot]

Honeslty Canada is such a vast country with huge expanses of land in the north with very low population density. Declaring all rural and isolated areas to be entitled to high speed sounds like a very expensive infrastructure bill for the tax payers and consumers. Canadians will pay out the nose for this, and it will only make the Telco monopolies happy.

 

[Memhorder]

I know most Rural areas have internet. Except way up North and a lot of the mountains. Just not near those speeds of 50 Mb/s up 10Mb/s down. If you get cell phone service it's almost guaranteed there's an internet company utilizing the same towers. LTE is growing big time. Was hoping some fibre would make it's way this way but I'm not so sure 🙁

 

[RomeoReject]

I know most Rural areas have internet. Except way up North and a lot of the mountains. Just not near those speeds of 50 Mb/s up 10Mb/s down. If you get cell phone service it's almost guaranteed there's an internet company utilizing the same towers. LTE is growing big time. Was hoping some fibre would make it's way this way but I'm not so sure 🙁

Fibre might make it there to help expand out those LTE towers. The sad reality is running optical cable on a client-by-client basis in the northern territories would be obscenely expensive. I think high-speed data is likely the only financially feasible way we'll get high-speed internet to the northern three-quarters of the country.

 

[gdmaclew]

I know most Rural areas have internet. Except way up North and a lot of the mountains. Just not near those speeds of 50 Mb/s up 10Mb/s down. If you get cell phone service it's almost guaranteed there's an internet company utilizing the same towers. LTE is growing big time. Was hoping some fibre would make it's way this way but I'm not so sure 🙁

Fibre might make it there to help expand out those LTE towers. The sad reality is running optical cable on a client-by-client basis in the northern territories would be obscenely expensive. I think high-speed data is likely the only financially feasible way we'll get high-speed internet to the northern three-quarters of the country.

I don't get your statement.
You said that "high-speed data is likely the only financially feasible way we'll get high-speed internet". Aren't they the same thing?