Thank you very much, Madam Chair. To the witnesses, we appreciate your being here today.
We're discussing the accessibility and affordability of our Internet. Those in high density areas look at affordability, and those in rural and remote areas look at accessibility. With my apologies to the second last speaker, Erin, costs are important, as well. When you have no service, that's when you start looking at anything to keep things going.
I had mentioned earlier that my Internet service dropped twice this morning from a little bit of snow and so on. Within 20 miles of Highway 2, here in Alberta, I will lose cellphone coverage twice. That's the sort of thing we have. That's one of the reasons why it would be important to look at something new for us for the future.
Certainly, there is concern about some of the comments that were made about no business case for service in rural and remote areas. One of the discussions we had was about satellite broadband and that it, too, is going to have some major issues.
My question is for Mr. Stein. You've been looking at wholesale rights by the CRTC. You've looked at the costs and profits associated with this.
What is the business case you see as far as satellite service is concerned? Will there be a time when satellite service will be able to put enough pressure on major telecoms' pricing to become more reasonable, in line with what we would see in other parts of the world?