Yesterday, Anita Anand and Ryan Turnbull stood before a photo shoot, grinning ear to ear, patting themselves on the back, telling us how they’re such heroes for spending $219 million of taxpayer money to bring “high-speed Internet” to 66,472 households in Ontario. Let me put it in perspective for you. That’s $3,294 per household—funded by you, the Canadian taxpayer. […]
Why would a government, supposedly by the people, for the people, go to such lengths to ignore what is clearly a better, more cost-effective option? Well, the answer may be uncomfortably simple: it’s not a government of the people, it’s a government for their corporate lobbyists. Lacking both imagination and business sense, they’d rather hand a $219 million gift to the telecom giants like it’s some sort of business-as-usual transaction.
Take Minister Anita Anand, for instance. She’s keen to tell us all about the marvelous ‘investment’ they’re making in fast Internet. Well, isn’t it funny how that investment seems to directly benefit companies like Telus, to the tune of billions? And speaking of funny business, don’t get me started on the fact that her husband’s company somehow started receiving millions in federal contracts right after she was elected. A sheer coincidence, I’m sure.
Anita Anand is an incompetent diversity hire.
She’s absolutely the worst. Shuttled to Minister of Defense and couldn’t be trusted not to blow her empty head off if she was passed a loaded gun.
The faster she is voted out the better, but I have little faith in woke Oakville libtard voters. They tossed out Terence Young for this loser.
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I have Starlink, that would pay for 2 years for me…
Musk internet is two hundred bucks. Faster than Telus here, more reliable, sets itself up.
Starlink is cheap up front, but expensive on a monthly basis but so is RoBelUs.
I suspect it’d be cheaper if not for the useless government regulations.
You would have to add in TELUS internet fees to do a comparison.
I dont have Telus, but if the average is 100 a month, that’s still cheaper than the 140 that Starlink charges..
Well, yes. But she is a divine member of the kleptocracy.
A change in government won’t change this policy.
If anything, the rural areas typically vote CPC. Just sayin.
$200 for the Starlink dish.
$140 a month for the service
I was paying over $200/month for landline, expressvu, and bell LTE 25mbps internet which are all cancelled now.
Definitely worth it.
Attaboy…
I’ve already ordered a hardware kit from Starlink for my new residence in SK.
I’ll be paying $140/month for standard service which has 200Mb/sec download rates.
I’m paying $75/month for my current service for 50Mb/sec. No frills. No live streaming, no cable or satellite service. Just internet.
Oh… and btw… Starlink knocked off $500 off of their hardware cost. Offer expires September 30th.
I thought “Starlink” was Eva Gabor’s pet starling?
I really want to agree, but his calculations ignore capacity issues.
Starlink simply can’t handle most of those customers due to the shared bandwidth the satellites use. Trying to put them all on the service would result in none of the customers getting any reasonable service levels. The fibre solution being put in doesn’t have that same limitation and future speed increases are much easier and cheaper to implement. Starlink has to replace or dramatically add to their entire orbital shell to improve.
Starlink is not designed for residential areas with fiber, coax, or 5G
If you have city water and sewer, starlink is not for you.
There, we will disagree. I have city water, and sewer, but the only other alternative to Starlink that is available is SaskTel.
SpaceX just launched the five thousandth starlink satellite a few days ago. And did a static fire test on Superheavy. This isn’t NASA you’re talking about.
Canada has unique geographical challenges when it comes to high-speed Internet access that make comparisons with anywhere else useless, and current market solutions suboptimal. That said, the government-telco cabal in Canada turns everything it touches into shite and I’m perfectly fine with telling rural communities that they can wait for a technological innovation or move. In the 00s my choice of residence was heavily influenced by the availability of high speed Internet because I needed it to do my job.
The politicians, oligarchical corporations, and the media all belong to the same people. And they are working together to create the infrastructure they require to rule all of us, no matter where we live.
Pushing out high-speed internet access allows their fascism to travel to wherever people live. Their activities and all forms of communication, banking, documentation, etc. can then reach them.
Politicians and the media are used in order to make what they’re going to do regardless have a positive-sounding spin. The controlled-opposition politicians and media are used to spin this into political partisanship/corruption to distract people from the big picture.
So they are installing fiber optic along the Dempster. It will serve a few communities of a few hundred , hundreds of kilometers apart. Anyone want to venture a guess on the cost per household? On an aside , there was periodic cell service installed by evil oil explorers before they were banned , or so I was told.