The 5G opportunities are there, but is Canada ready to take advantage of them?

Canada’s economic competitors are adopting 5G faster than Canada, and this represents a significant opportunity cost and potentially long-term ripple effects due to lost investments and contracts.

Nearly one million Canadians don't even have broadband internet access, or they have excessively expensive access compared to other G7 countries. In an increasingly technology-driven world, people who don’t have access to fast, reliable broadband services are victims of a new type of social inequality, writes Michelle Rempel Garner.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE MP MICHELLE REMPEL GARNER

March 25, 2020

The introduction of 5G presents all Canadians with great opportunity, but Canada may not yet be in a position to capitalize on it. This is a situation that we must rectify. The technology of 5G will have an incredible impact on the future of economic productivity. It is transformational in that it ...

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