<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Not only do I fully agree with your point about less centralized ownership. The distribution of ownership among communities is the whole point of Telecommunties Canada’s existence. <br><br><div dir="ltr">GG</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 7, 2023, at 6:16 AM, David Mackey <mackey361@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for the link Garth. This is an excellent description of the current state of internet service in rural Canada. It's fundamentally not good. <div><br></div><div>As we move our digital society forward in Canada, I think it's important for us to understand the inherently decentralized nature of the Internet. This is a fundamental change in how our communication infrastructure works. </div><div><br></div><div>We should expect, and encourage, less concentrated ownership structures of the communication infrastructure in the future. This may seem weird for many who have lived with big communication oligopolies in the past, but guess what? We are still living in a world of digital disruption. Less oligopolistic ownership concentration of the communication infrastructure in Canada is a good thing. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>David</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 6:54 PM Marita Moll <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thanks Garth. I will
definitely check this out. It is interesting to see this
question of Internet as public utility come up at all, let alone
on public radio. Well, it would be weird to have a public
utility only for certain areas/populations. <br>
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In this episode of The Current, the question - should the Internet be a public utility? - is actually asked, if not quite answered However this does only emphasize the rural in the question of digital equity. I don’t think you get to the argument for Internet being a public utility until you add in the huge dimensions of digital equity issues in urban environments.
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