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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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

CBC Radio: Speedy internet service for rural Ottawa

Today, the Ottawa Morning show on CBC RadioOne (91.5 FM in the Ottawa area) aired an interview with Chris Cope of the city's ORCNet project where he discusses current and future high-speed access in rural Ottawa, and in particular touches on recent events concerning Arryba Communications and Storm Internet.

An audio clip of the interview can be heard on the link below (requires RealPlayer):

http://cbc.ca/ottawa/media/audio/ottawamorning/20060822TOPA22.ram
(6 mins 36 secs)

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