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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>That’s excellent news – Kristina, my apologies. I was misinformed and I feel badly as I did reach out to Waterfront Toronto (via email, etc) and again today as it was still worrying me (left a message with an Andrea?). I will have to make sure the Lakeland people speak to that fact that you are up and running. You may have noticed I mentioned Waterfront Toronto in my first note back to Marita et al. <BR>
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Advisors, I stand corrected – Lakeland is the first 1G north of the GTA waterfront! I encourage everyone to read about the strides Waterfront Toronto has made as an intelligent community chosen — is it two years in a row? I was just so amazed that my area might be first while I still limp along on ‘urban adjacent not quite high speed’ :)<BR>
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Thanks, Kristina!<BR>
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On 2014-03-24, 8:06 PM, "Kristina Verner" <<a href="kverner@uwindsor.ca">kverner@uwindsor.ca</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Great to have another 1GB community in the province! We lit up our services with Beanfield Metroconnect March 2013 to the first residents of the waterfront neighbourhood in Toronto. I look forward to collaborating to see what great innovative capacity we can build leveraging this infrastructure!<BR>
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kristina verner | director, intelligent communities | Waterfront Toronto | 1310-20 bay street | toronto, ON M5J 2N8 | t. 647-288-8046 | c. 647-286-9053 | e. <a href="kverner@waterfrontoronto.ca">kverner@waterfrontoronto.ca</a> | w. www.waterfrontoronto.ca <<a href="http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca">http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca</a>> <BR>
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On Mar 24, 2014, at 7:55 PM, "James Van Leeuwen" <<a href="jvl@ventus.ca">jvl@ventus.ca</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>That's great news, congratulations to the five communities involved. <BR>
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I will be drawing attention to this initiative here in Alberta. <BR>
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On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Norah Fountain CH <<a href="norah@creativehouse.com">norah@creativehouse.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>FW: First One Gigabit Service Launching in Ontario -- in Muskoka-Parry Sound! <BR>
Dear Telecom Canada advisors and friends, I thought this release may interest you and wanted to give you a first heads up. For the writers and those interested in learning more on this list, please reach out to the contacts on the release (as I’m going in for some surgery tomorrow so won’t be around.) Hope you don’t mind me sending this to the list. The press release goes out tomorrow via CNW. If you feel it appropriate, would love it if you would share with your other networks, such as our CIRA friends.<BR>
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<B>Internet connectivity just took a big step forward in Ontario. <BR>
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Lakeland Networks is rolling out the first 1 Gigabit fibre service in Ontario to present fibre customers in Muskoka and Almaguin starting in April. A press release from Lakeland Networks is attached for your information (and pasted in below for your convenience).<BR>
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This is a significant first and this level of fibre service is considered foundational for the knowledge based economy in Ontario and Canada.<BR>
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What does 1 Gigabit mean?<BR>
•You could download an entire 14GB digital movie in less than two minutes OR you could download hundreds of high quality digital photos at the same time. In comparison, a small email uses about 2KB of data while a high quality digital picture can use up to 10MB. Many businesses in Muskoka today cannot email a 10MB photo (let alone a 1MB photo!). <BR>
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There was a hint of this announcement at the One Gigabit Summit recently in Gravenhurst. Now it’s official and some fibre customers in towns like Bracebridge will be hooked up to the fastest Internet in just a matter of weeks.<BR>
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<B>For interviews about what 1 Gigabit means for our region, </B>contact Bill Gispen or Chris Litschko (he will be travelling starting Sunday so would need to be reached before then at 888-282-7711 ext 224). <BR>
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PRESS RELEASE with Contact info attached and pasted in below. <BR>
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