https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/elo...rnet-1.5151633?cid=sm:trueanthem:ctvnews:post Glad they are allowed into the monopoly. Hopefully they shake things up
Should be interesting, that's for sure. This may catalyze a shift in where people choose to live, should they have access to decent lowish latency internet services. There's no money in servicing such rural areas for incumbents so this will hopefully be a good thing.
Cool. One of the wrinkles in our plan to visit NS in November is lack of access to internet where we’ll be staying. About the only thing currently available is something Bell calls “high speed” but looks to be slow as molasses and costs an arm and a leg. Im not a Musk fan as a human but this does look cool. Side note: I was out for a bike ride a month or so ago and ended up biking by a Space X office - didn’t know they were in Seattle. Was kind of cool. I was actually biking around Redmond which is where Microsoft is HQ’d - massive campus!
Town recently got fiber like a month ago, but I'm still rocking my 15mbps DSL connection baby -- with a 300GB cap!
Really curious what they'll offer for prices/plans. Might be something I could take camping, maybe get decent wifi for photo backups, etc
My brother-in-law recently moved from Dawson City to rural NS and complain about how slow their internet is now. lol
Dawson City is rural but is at least a town and the second largest town in the Yukon. It doesn’t take much to be rural in Nova Scotia without much in the way of internet. My sister-in-law lives on the same lake where we have our cottage and doesn’t have internet at all.
i said to my wife earlier, i see in about 10 years, the total eradication of schools as a whole. online, virutal classrooms only. If you can get a strong internet connection. no need to live close to anything.
My goal is a home on a lake in the Laurentians. If I could WFH with reliable high speed internets, I'd be one step closer to my goal.
Good luck even getting cell coverage in the Laurentians unless that's changed in the last couple of years.
My wife grew up there. At her parent's place (and at their chalet) there are certain windows you can leave your phone in to get reception. Her parents are currently on satellite internet (Xplornet), while better than dialup, sucks ass.
