[Advisors] FW: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Digital divide: The high costs of Arctic broadband

[michael gurstein]

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Subject: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Digital divide: The high costs of
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"....In concluding its review of the situation [in the North] last fall, the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission found things to
be dire indeed. Aging networks, service outages, prohibitive costs - the
hallmarks of a neglected region. The culprit: a regulated monopoly by
incumbent provider Northwestel.
The company, owned by Bell Canada Enterprises since 1988, has historically
been the sole provider of Internet and phone services in the territories.
In its review, the CRTC said Northwestel had failed to make necessary
investments in its network despite receiving an annual subsidy of
$20-million since 2007 to provide services in remote communities.
Over that same time, the company's annual income from operations had nearly
doubled, to $69.3-million in 2010. The company, according to the CRTC, had
unjustly enriched its shareholders at the expense of the 100,000 people it
had been charged with serving...."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/digital-divide-the-high-
costs-of-arctic-broadband/article5165177/


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