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.
This purpose of this weblog is to track news and events related to high-speed (broadband) Internet access in the
rural areas of Ottawa and, to a lesser extent, in nearby townships.
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Today, the Ottawa Business Journal published an
article discussing the potential impacts of the City's decision to fund Barrett Xplore (
XplorNet) $750,000 so that it can close the gaps in high-speed Internet access in rural Ottawa. Other, local service providers, such as
Storm Internet, are concerned about the unfair competitive advantage that the funding will give XplorNet.
2 Comments:
Chris,
Rogers appear to have a new website to support their portable internet service (http://hispeed.rogers.com/bband/content/expand/index.html). Near Ashton I can apparently get service with the use of an 'outdoor' modem. I spoke with a Bell 'Unplugged' CSR and they plan to be able to offer me service by the end of the month, which is obviously great news for me.
The new Roger website might be worth a post to your readers.
Keep up the great work!
It's about time some competition becomes available - the present providers have every excuse in the book on why they can't provide decent reliable advertised speeds. Amen!
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