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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4 Comments:
Here's an interesting press release from Xplornet. I'm not really sure what this means for Ottawa, they aren't very specific.
http://smr.newswire.ca/en/barrett-xplore-inc/canadas-first-national-4g-network-launched
There appears to be a new tower in Hallville, on Shaw Road. Does anyone have any information on who owns the tower? We're outside of Hallville on Development Rd. and are looking for high-speed options. Bell's signal isn't strong enough and have not heard positive reports on Xplornet or Ripnet. Currently, have a Rogers rocket stick but it is hit or miss at best.
Thanks!
I've been watching out for the new tower at Hallville hoping it was the beginning of Xplornet's 4G network in our area. According to the Cellular Towers Link on this blog, the Hallville tower is showing up as a Bell tower.
Derek..
Cell tower only according to Bell.
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