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,

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

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 pi

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

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

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

Industry committee  Sorry.

Industry committee  Who were you asking?

Industry committee  Why don't you go first? I have a tendency to run on.

Industry committee  Okay, here we go. Thank you very much for asking the spectrum question. It's the elephant in the room. It's the private versus public, and we are all familiar with the spectrum squatting that has gone on for over 15 years now. The first thing I'd say is that if you don't use it

Industry committee  Why are we paying for any spectrum in that case? What's the value of the spectrum? It's nothing, because the amount of money that you can return on the capital is zero. You you have to make it affordable for those people, and for the companies to be able to provide that. It's tru

Industry committee  As a private company, I'm against net neutrality. I want all of your private information, and I want to leverage the crap out of it to make as much money as possible off it. As a private citizen, I'm for net neutrality because I do not want you to have all of my private informat

Industry committee  As an example, we can get colour pictures from a satellite that went by Pluto.