Bridging The Digital Divide Canada

RURAL BROADBAND

[Ted Woodhead (he/him) @tedwoodhead]

.@shruti_shekar wrote a great piece here on the struggles, cost and difficulty of provisioning broadband to rural and remote areas.

https://t.co/fAuRN3Rhxu

[Joe Caruso @joe_clearcable]

#Clearcable would like thank all the folks that attended the #CRRBC2019 #ruralbroadband event. Excellent discussions and exceptional diversity of attendees. The consences still remains that collabortion is still the top required priority when it comes to…https://t.co/ahzkkQgt4N

[Cartt.ca @CarttCa]

From @digitaldivideca: Loads of interest and ideas for #ruralbroadband "There's no business case for that" #cdntech #crtc #cdnpoli https://t.co/21ohSWMkBK

[The Wire Report @thewirereport]

Hydro pole rates a problem for rural connectivity: @ccsaonline vice-chair at @digitaldivideca conference 🔒 : https://t.co/trdD6EtE3L

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

#OEC up next at #CRRBC2019

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

Thanks to Chad West coming all the way from #NovaScotia to present the Valley Community Fibre Network #CRRBC2019

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

Mitch Thomson @OldsInstitute tells their amazing story #CRRBC2019

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

Melanie #NSRBN starts off Q&A sessions at #CRRBC2019

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

Good morning from #CRRBC2019 full house #ruralbroadband

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

Laura Bradley starts Day 2 #CRRBC2019

[Hay Communications @Hay_Comm]

General Manager of Hay, Angela Lawrence, sitting on a panel discussing rural broadband at the Bridging the @digitaldivideca conference.

[Greg O'Brien @gregobr]

Think people are hungry for knowledge, and to share info on #ruralbroadband? 200-plus people up bright and early this morning for @digitaldivideca in North Bay.

[The Wire Report @thewirereport]

As the #CRTC announced it's accepting new applications for its Broadband Fund, those at @digitaldivideca heard about the need for more rural broadband funding and more intergovernmental cooperation to ease bureaucratic barriers 🔒: https://t.co/7JcS7cweGb

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

Mayor Thompson presenting @digitaldivideca #caledon #essentialservice #ruralbroadband

[Anja Karadeglija @AnjaKaradeglija]

In North Bay today for the @digitaldivideca conference focusing on rural broadband.

[Anja Karadeglija @AnjaKaradeglija]

A couple of hours before #CRTC executive director of telecom, Chris Seidl, will speak at the @digitaldivideca rural broadband conference.

[Greg O'Brien @gregobr]

Moderated a hum-dinger of a panel at the @digitaldivideca conference. Never seen so many questions from the audience. People sure are passionate abt rural broadband & the myriad issues holding it back! Fwiw, took a photo recently of what rural broadband tech sometimes looks like

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

communities in Canada receive adequate services. "..It is costing us our economies, our educations, and ultimately our futures..." Fideli said. He finished by describing the three-year plan to connect about 200k remote and rural Canadians #CRRBC2019 #broadband #digitaldivide

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

as the only source of content for unconnected remote First Nations communities. Panel discussion continues now on: First Nations Broadband Connectivity, at the first Canadian Rural & Remote Broadband Conference in North Bay #CRRBC2019 #broadbandforall #digitaldivide #firstnations

[Bridging The Digital Divide Canada @digitaldivideca]

“It is 2019 and there are children, in Canada, that are sharing files the same way people do in North Korea” a statement made by a panel member about how First Nations children have to use USB sticks to hoard content when they have the chance. That USB then gets passed around