Welcome to the self-proclaimed Rural Ottawa High-Speed Internet Blog. High-speed Internet access is virtually ubiquitous in the urban and suburban areas of Ottawa, but when I started this blog in 2005, only about 60% of the rural areas of Ottawa have coverage. However, even for rural citizens, high-speed Internet access is becoming as necessary as telephone service. Happily, high-speed coverage for rural Ottawa has increased significantly, and not only is coverage reportedly above 90%, many rural residents and businesses now have more than one choice of high-speed ISP.

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Monday, October 24, 2005

Arryba Communications -- Open House

Here are the important parts of an email that I recently received from ORCnet:




Some great news! Here's another important milestone in the effort to make high-speed Internet available to all residents in the City of Ottawa.

Arryba Communications Inc. has launched a new wireless broadband service in the southeastern area of the city with plans to expand quickly to other rural areas in Ottawa. Already they have 7 nodes up and are aggressively seeking to bring high-speed Internet to other communities throughout rural Ottawa.

Arryba is planning an Open house on the first of November I hope you can come. Here are the details:

- Arryba Communications Inc. Open House
- Tuesday, November 1, drop-in 3:00 to 8:00 pm, official ribbon cutting 7:00 pm
- Vernon Community Centre, 7950 Lawrence Street, Vernon

Drop by the Vernon Community Centre on November 1st to see live demonstrations of just how fast Arryba's Internet service really is and verify if it is (or will be) available in your area. Ask questions, have a snack, and enter to win a variety of cool door prizes for the whole family.

Here is some additional information about the company:

Launched in southern rural Ottawa earlier this year, Arryba is an innovative provider of high speed and high bandwidth communication services. The company primarily uses wireless technologies to bring high speed internet to a growing list of small communities outside the economic reach of main-line telephone and cable companies. Arryba is not just an Internet service provider. The company also offers a suite of broadband services such as long distance calling plans, e-fax, VivaVault(r) (data back-up and recovery), SmartFarm(r) (instant access to targeted services such as weather and crop reports, etc. that connect farmers everywhere), tele-education and tele-medicine.

To find out more about Arryba and their services, visit www.arryba.com or call 1-888-203-0411.

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