Rolling out Internet service clearly always depends on the installation of optical fibre. You have to calculate about $10,000 per kilometre for optical fibre. Serving rural areas becomes complicated for telecommunications companies, which understandably concentrate more on urban communications.
So you have to look at a technology that is able to provide the Internet en masse, and not through individual solutions. Because of our experience in the 19 communities that we have been able to serve, we in the Agence Interrégionale de développement des technologies de l'information et des communications, or AIDE-TIC, believe that cellular telephone technology is perhaps the mass solution to consider. This is especially so because it can provide the Internet in parallel. So, in the communities that we serve, we now have access to telephones, to mobile Internet and to fixed Internet through the cellphone system.
Earlier, I brought up the matter of the speeds that we will be attaining by 2020. We now know that, in the next five years, Canadian telecommunications companies that are not able to make fibre optics available in rural areas will be using cellphone technology in order to serve them. It works not only for the Internet, but for television, for fixed telephones and for all the packages that telecoms now provide through cable or fibre optics.