People forget how recent our entry into the telephone market has been. A whole bunch of companies went into the telephone business in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and they all went bankrupt. In 2002-03 we were all scratching our heads wondering what was going to happen. EastLink entered the phone business using a technology that's different from the one we all used. As Mr. Lavoie said, we've used IP technology. We all entered this business around 2005. There has been an astonishingly rapid rollout of service, and we have those rural areas in our sights, but we haven't got there yet.
On February 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.