Finance committee  Just quickly, with the example of health records, ultimately we have to get to 100% broadband availability, and I think we're already well down that path. One hundred percent of Canadians having access to cost-effective and up-to-date computer technology, and one hundred percent

Finance committee  I believe the expectation is somewhere around 2011 or 2012.

Finance committee  Like any business, we have a lot of work to get done in the next three years. But we also have to be looking forward as to how we bring more and more capacity. That is the challenge of broadband. It's not only getting the subscription to the customer, but over time giving them mo

Finance committee  Yes. I think the first point to make is that there is an emerging category of providers, most of whom, I'd say, are local in their communities and who create employment there. These are not the big names we're usually familiar with; these are the folks who are working hard to bri

Finance committee  I think the key message is that we use two technologies. One of the key technologies to reach these communities, the small remote communities, is satellite. In essence, with the capability we have today, we can reach any community anywhere in Canada. The key objective that we h

Finance committee  Thank you for this opportunity. Our company, Barrett Xplore, is singularly focused on bringing broadband high-speed Internet to rural Canada. We have grown from basically few or no customers almost four years ago to more than 115,000 rural homes and businesses. Ours is a “mad

Industry committee  It was.

Industry committee  Absolutely. We and others at this table have submitted to the CRTC our business plans and where we're operating today, for sharing with the telephone companies, so that we can ensure that the markets we're in or plan to be in are going to be protected from subsidized competition.

Industry committee  It was an ironic decision: help foster competition in urban Canada...the deferral account, the $620 million. Oops, now we have to figure out what to do with that; let's put it into rural Canada. It's the same kind of distortion that these folks have spoken to, and I think these

Industry committee  We're investing.

Industry committee  I think there's a lot of good in TPR, but one of the observations on our part is that it does not speak to satellite. The whole issue we're facing as an industry is continuing technological change. There are parts of this globe that will see wireless, broadband, and satellite b

Industry committee  It would absolutely put us at a disadvantage. We're going through a process today where I'm sure a number of my fellow colleagues here have submitted their business plans, as well as the current communities that they're serving, with broadband service. I think we're very clearly

Industry committee  I'd say that inasmuch as there are examples of regulation gone right, there are also examples of regulation gone wrong. There's the example of the deferral account, where there is activity in rural Canada to deploy and we're deploying with the benefit of Telesat's Ka-band satelli

Industry committee  Barrett Xplore is a national rural broadband service provider, and 2006 was our first full year of operation, with both our satellite and fixed wireless services in the market. Our satellite service, launched in conjunction with Telesat, offers a ubiquitous national footprint f