Industry committee  I know. Well, you know what? That's simply a function of money, isn't it? Right?

Industry committee  Please say something about spectrum.

Industry committee  Thank you very much. Because this is being recorded, I think the more times we can say “Rigstar”, the better.

Industry committee  The ability to provide remote communications is there. Can a farmer out in Grande Cache afford the bandwidth? The bandwidth is the issue. I can go outside Grande Cache and do that same service for that same fracking company—no problem. If you want one megabyte, 10 or 20 megabytes, or up-and-down streaming, I can do that, because they have the money.

Industry committee  Sure. To address your last point first, that's what happens when you invest in a technology and then the technology goes past, but you don't have the capital dollars recovered from the technology to be able to invest back into the technology to give the service. I will spare the federal government any rants on the Alberta SuperNet, and we'll just move on from there.

Industry committee  I think what you're asking me about is defined areas, using the counties as an example. When you're dealing with a new country, say, like.... I've been around this business for 20 years, and this is an example that was brought up by a friend of mine. It's about an African country where they were just deploying cellular technologies.

Industry committee  No, I don't see that the technology will be always chasing its tail. There are two levels or flows of technology that have been going concurrently. The first is the increased bandwidth. We've been able to increase the amount of bandwidth that we've been able to shove down the pipes and provide to the people.

Industry committee  First of all, thank you very much for the opportunity to address the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. I always just want to call it Industry Canada, so you'll have to forgive my age. Rigstar Industrial Telecom was originally called Rigstar Communications, and we were an oil and gas upstream technology provider for drilling rigs.