[DylanFuery]

As somebody that lives quite literally half way between Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa the closest town (one I also live in) still doesn't have fiber and barely proper Cable/DSL. They have the TO-MTL Bell fiber backbone going along the Heritage Highway (the St. Lawrence River) Everything is over Cable here. 250/20 Mbps and Unlimited data is over $130 a month, but not everybody in the city can get that. Most of the city is still on old Bell copper which is just DSL speeds. 6/.5 Mbps "maybe" and if you want to use your phone at the same time the line being so old and congested you will probably get dropped.

The second house I live at is 15 KM north of this city. I have no Bell (copper of any kind), no Cable... Just Hydro. Meaning my next bet is to installed a 80'-100' tower and do Wireless Internet (2.4 GHz and 5.6 GHz technology). 6/.85 with a soft cap of 200 GB at $66 a month or 10/1 with a soft cap of 200 GB for $100 (this is only for certain Sectors which are suitable, luckily I am one of them).

This is on top of paying monthly for the equipment rental or buying it out right. The towers alone can cost $1,000+ (it was $250 just to have it anchored with guide wires). Let's not even get started on Ping Speeds I'm thankfully between 30 ms to 150 ms on average. But I've hit over 1500 ms on days, and Rain Effect (especially being in Canada where it snows A LOT) makes connections almost impossible.

Though I would love the CRTC to do something of this, I'm sure I don't qualify as "Remote" or "Rural" enough. It's a scam really (3ish major providers with 1% or so it seems of actual coverage) and if you work from home you are literally out of luck. Especially when within a 25 KM radius there are only TWO cell phone towers. The one that is closest that provides the best signal and speeds is slightly off on its pointed degree and angle so I can't pick it up so I receive the farthest cell tower away which gives me about 1 bar of 3G, I'm often on 2G (which will be shut off soon) and rarely LTE. Then if I do use my cellular data that's $52 per ONE GB over your plan. Its a pointless battle.

I understand most of the population lives within a few hours of the border, and "remote and rural" are priorities but even people 20 minutes away from big cities have it rougher than most think. Something needs to be done.