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High speed in rural Bruce

Posted by thefyreplaceguy on July 7, 2007 - 12:25am

WANT HIGH SPEED INTERNET in rural Bruce County? If you haven't been to the Bruce County website and filled out the form for the Broadband Initiative please do so now.

click for info: Bruce County Broadband Initiative

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Broadband? Um ... ok

Submitted by garym on July 7, 2007 - 8:57am.

Dutifully I have filled mine out, and all due respect to David and Richard but the no-cat wire I do have is fast and affordable and marvellously supported, but it is firewalled and limited in what it can reach and what it can do, so I appreciate the service, but I'm still in the market for real broadband. That's the mindset that brought me into the Bruce County site.

What I found there, though, does not fill me with hope. By way of background, I was one of the telework participants in the TBL project out of Macmaster, a mass survey of all stakeholders in an information economy, I was part of the OC-Freenet project, the Snowden Project on rural telecom, the NativeNet, the Agricultural Exchange, OMAFRA's early online work and AT&T's Telecommute America events, not forgetting inciting the (ill-fated) Info-Cor project at the Wiarton town offices ... so I have a bit of background into how these surveys are done and what they need to know.

This survey doesn't ask me what I want to do with the internet, it only asks me if I generically want some undefined thing called 'broadband'. Do I want video? They don't care. Do I need 1M/s, 10M/s or 100M/s? Irrelevant. Does my site have one user, two, five or nine? Don't care. All it asks is if I want that undefined thing, and then asks for my ratepayer status, and the only promise it makes is to put a pin in a map on my behalf.

Clicking on the SEND also returns me bck to a fresh blank form. Did it work? Was my form received? Can I press 'back' and send it again? Anybody's guess.

So do go click through and fill it out, it is only one page of easy questions, but I wouldn't hold my breath on awaiting any tangible results from it.

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

I wouldn't hold my breath on

Submitted by chenner on July 11, 2007 - 10:13am.

I wouldn't hold my breath on this.

There was a story printed in the Sun Times a couple weeks back about the county moving forward with a broadband project. This is no longer the case.

Unfortunately, the funding promised by the government came at a very short notice and the county, like most, are unable to prepare for it by the deadline the government has proposed.