Rural broadband and the national interest

With substantial progress on rural and remote broadband access, the policy question now changes. The hardest places to connect are often the most dependent on digital connections: some lack all-season roads, regular air service and nearby hospitals, schools or emergency responders.
The next phase for the very remote rural broadband policy should begin with priorities including creating a dedicated rural resilience funding stream across federal and provincial broadband programs, writes Erik Bohlin.

I have spent much of my career studying telecommunications systems across countries, including in Sweden, where I have been based most of my life. Canada is roughly 20 times Sweden’s size with less than four times its population, and more than twice the size of the Europea...

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