Rural Ottawa could be fully wired for high-speed Internet by August
Who writes these headlines ??? How can you be "fully wired" to a wireless connection ??
Rural residents of Ottawa could be hooked up to the high-speed information superhighway as early as August, after city council approved a partner to deliver broadband Internet service to every home in the city.
Members of the city's rural affairs committee met on March 22 to approve a public-private proposal from New Brunswick-based Barrett Xplore Inc. (BXI) to deploy a Motorola-based fixed wireless broadband platform designed to cover 100 per cent of the rural Ottawa market.
The city received proposals from BXI, Inukshuk Wireless Inc., and Storm Internet Services. Of them, BXI's was deemed the "best value" for money by staff and consultants who reviewed them.
In this case, BXI will employ both line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight technologies to get residents hooked up. The company expects to need between 20 and 30 towers to deliver wireless broadband to rural homes, two-thirds of which already exist. The company may need to install about 10 new towers, each about 100 feet in height, in various locations, said BXI's CEO John Maduri.
The company proposed to offer various service rates to residents ranging between $30 and $60 per month for residential service and between $60 and $150 for business and enterprise packages.
The topic has been bantered around in Montague since last fall... I wonder if it might be a good time to jump in with the City & Barrett to ensure all of our residents have access too ... While the problem has been solved for me, I believe in order to attract industrial and residential development, all areas of the Township need access to affordable high speed. If the Township needs to partially subsidize one-time construction costs to achieve this, I'd be in favor it.
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"The topic has been bantered around in Montague since last fall"
This is Montague Township, outside of Smiths Falls? What are they bantering about, exactly? I live in Montague, and have been [not so] patiently waiting for high speed access in this area. I've recently contacted both the Township office as well as Bell, to see what I could do to help in this 'fight' for high speed.
Township council was looking into erecting a 100 ft tower with some funds that were available ... in the hopes of attracting a wireless carrier to the Twp.
Ripnet and Explornet (via satellite) (and Storm in some places) are available in the twp, but are rather pricey. Explornet's Wifi access is more reasonably priced (in line with what city users pay)... this is the network that the City of Ottawa is partially financing construction.
The Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus has applied for provincial financing for a network across EO, this is likely what will finally get this done.
Forget about Sympatico if you are more than 5 kms from the Bell CO on Russell St.
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