We're a new company in our infant stages here. We fired up about a year ago. We do rural wireless Internet, fixed point to point. We started up on a budget. We're still on a budget.
Like everybody else, what we see in these areas is that with the current options, rural Internet is unusable in most cases. Actual speeds aren't even coming close to the advertized speeds. Also, the coverage is not that great. We're trying to focus on that and expand our coverage.
There are a lot of things that could be done on the government side to initiate this and to make things a little easier for getting rural Internet out there. An example would be expanding beyond the five gigahertz range. That's the free range that we and most other wireless Internet service providers operate in. That would have a big benefit.
On grant money, we've been digging around for the past year and just been banging our heads against the wall trying to find out where this grant money is. From everyone we've talked to, we just get a runaround. We just get “talk to somebody else, talk to...”. It just never ends. That's why I contacted our MP, John Barlow, and it's the reason we're at this meeting today.
There are a lot of issues with rural Internet, as we all know. I think that if we all work together in the industry, it's going to be more beneficial in the long run. The big telcos have their hub solution, which is a great solution in most cases, as long as the towers don't get overloaded, but they do have the data caps. At NetWisper, we don't do data caps. We focus primarily on customer service. We just try to keep our speeds to what we have advertised them as and keep our customers happy.
That's about it for me.