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High-speed internet: Does your community have access?
- May 5, 2010 10:27 AM |
- By POV
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is promising ubiquitous high-speed broadband internet access across Canada within three years if his party is elected to government.
Ignatieff made the commitment to 100 per cent connectivity, with speeds of at least 1.5 megabits per second, for all Canadian communities by 2013 in a video conference from Thunder Bay, Ont., on Tuesday. He also promised expanded cellphone coverage and said a more ambitious internet speed goal would follow by 2017.
A Liberal government would fund the initiative with money raised from the upcoming public auction of wireless airwaves, scheduled for next year, he said.
More than 800,000 households still did not have access to broadband in 2009, Ignatieff said.
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Will high-speed internet access across Canada bridge the rural-urban divide? What is the service like in your community? Comment or take our poll.
(This poll is not scientific. It is based on readers' votes.)
Ignatieff made the commitment to 100 per cent connectivity, with speeds of at least 1.5 megabits per second, for all Canadian communities by 2013 in a video conference from Thunder Bay, Ont., on Tuesday. He also promised expanded cellphone coverage and said a more ambitious internet speed goal would follow by 2017.
A Liberal government would fund the initiative with money raised from the upcoming public auction of wireless airwaves, scheduled for next year, he said.
More than 800,000 households still did not have access to broadband in 2009, Ignatieff said.
Read more
Will high-speed internet access across Canada bridge the rural-urban divide? What is the service like in your community? Comment or take our poll.
(This poll is not scientific. It is based on readers' votes.)
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