Analysis: Fast promises on slow internet in the North – CBC

Aug 31, 2015

‘These are barely dial-up speeds and that’s for people who even have access,’ technology analyst

Federal leaders are making more promises about delivering faster internet to rural communities — promises that have been made many times before to people in the North.

This past week the Conservatives launched a video to accompany their campaign promise to set aside a further $200 million to support major new investments in fibre broadband infrastructure in rural and remote communities that currently lack high-speed internet.

“Access to high speed internet is key in creating jobs in rural and northern communities,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper says, in the campaign video, while standing in a field on a farm.

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