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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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Bell Sympatico Unplugged Expansion

It appears that the Bell Sympatico Unplugged service will be expanding across many parts of the country, including Ontario and specifically the Ottawa area. The web page referenced above indicates a timeframe of April/May of 2007 for expansion into rural Ottawa including the following areas:

  • Baskins Beach
  • Carsonby
  • Constance Bay
  • Dunrobin
  • Fallowfield
  • Long Island (Manotick)
  • Ramsayville
  • Richmond
  • Watterson Corners
  • Woodlawn

The above list is subject to change, and reflects contents at the time of writing this post. Please refer to the referenced web page for up-to-date info.

Many thanks to an anonymous reader for providing this info.

posted by Chris Spencer at 5:08 pm 2 comments

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks like Storm has some expansion plans in the works too:

http://groups.google.ca/group/Deerwood/browse_thread/thread/5e35e9c1aec236ff/ee6e41ac038599e7?lnk=st&q=%22storm+internet%22&rnum=1&hl=en#ee6e41ac038599e7

Derek..

January 08, 2007 11:46 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Other settlements within the City that are also identified are:

Baxter's Corners (near Richmond)

Bearbrook (near Vars)

Dirleton (near Woodlawn)

Kilmaurs (near Woodlawn)

Moores Corners (near North Gower)

Notre-Dames-des-Champs (near Navan)

Pierces Corners (near North Gower)

Sheppards Grove (near Kinburn)

Torwood Estates (near Constance Bay)

February 12, 2007 4:31 pm  

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