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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I've opened up this blog to allow anyone to post to it. However, I continue to moderate and will remove any inappropriate content, e.g. anything not related to high-speed internet access in the rural Ottawa, the Ottawa Valley, Eastern Ontario, and the Outaouais.
Last fall, the CRTC made a controversial ruling allowing Bell Sympatico (and others) to throttle Internet speeds based on content. A group of small ISPs is now seeking to have that ruling overturned based on such grounds Internet freedom, monopolization, consumer costs, and user privacy.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/21/tech-bell-isps-internet-throttling.html
2 Comments:
I moved to Romania at a certain moment in my life and I live in Bucharest. Story is that at home I have a 100 megs (100 mbps) connection from iLink Romania. I even met the CEO once ( Sabin Piso ) a 30 years old guy who built a fiber to the building ISP in 2 years. Guys ... 4.5 gigs in 10 minutes ... no traffic limite .. you can figure out the rest :)))
I can tell you the fiber to the building is the next generation solution for everything.
100 Mbps? OK, I'm jealous. But no one is going to run fibre-to-rural-home. Maybe in the city, but not in the country... or not in a country the size of Canada.
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