<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Further to my preceding post:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Most of the (slow) progress with rural fibre deployment here in Alberta revolves around public-private partnerships, in which a local government issues an RFP that private network builder-operators respond to. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some of these P3s have been well structured, based on the local government doing its due diligence.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Others have been flaky, typically because of incompetence or favouritism on the part of the local government partner.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The good news is that COVID really boosted the supply side of the Alberta market.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At least six Canadian companies are now active in the Alberta market for building and operating optical fibre access networks:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://valonetworks.com" class="">https://valonetworks.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://cnpartners.ca" class="">https://cnpartners.ca</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://canadianfiberoptics.ca" class="">https://canadianfiberoptics.ca</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.albertabroadbandnetworks.com" class="">https://www.albertabroadbandnetworks.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://bluefibre.ca" class="">https://www.utilitynet.net/docs/Blue_Fibre_Press_Release.pdf</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nationfiber.com" class="">https://www.nationfiber.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The last of these companies (Nation Fibre) is under the control of a First Nation partner in Saskatchewan (Big Island Lake Cree Nation)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">James</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 1, 2023, at 2:07 AM, Marita Moll <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net" class="">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Hello Advisors. Just
wanted to thank Garth, Kathryn and Clarice for responding to
this request. If there is any info available from Alberta,
Quebec or Maritimes -- please send what you can re different
approaches to access. <br class="">
</font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Thanks</font></p><p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Marita</font><br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-05-26 1:00 p.m., Marita Moll
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><p class="">Hello advisors. I will be attending ICANN77 in Washington D.C.
in a couple of weeks. There is a roundtable discussion:<br class="">
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<font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span style="" class="">"Government
efforts to expand Broadband Access in the US and Canada"
will explore and critique federal, state and local
initiatives to make broadband more available, affordable and
usable. The panel will look at different approaches taking
place in urban, rural and Indigenous communities and how
these efforts are progressing, including programs seeking to
improve access, financial affordability, device availability
and end user activation.</span></font></font><strong class=""><br class="">
</strong><p class=""><strong class="">Date: Monday 12 June - 10:45- 12:15</strong> <br class="">
</p><p class="">One of our members from National Capital Freenet -- Andrew
Marty Asare will be speaking remotely about some work he and NCF
are doing on the ground to get people connected. I am also on
that panel. I am wondering if any of you have examples I can use
about how you are working with government programs to fill the
connectivity gap -- and how that is working out -- or not. This
is about different approaches -- and I am sure some of you have
some examples to offer.</p><p class="">Many thanks</p><p class="">Marita<br class="">
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