Industry committee  Those are great points. First of all, when I speak of “rural”, the key point is economic development. Look at all the natural resources that reside in rural. It's such a critical component. So I agree with you that our digital strategy and our economic development are very aligne

Industry committee  Yes, that's precisely on slide 13.

Industry committee  Relatively speaking, there's no question, because while mobile broadband is growing in percentages a great deal, relatively speaking, it's still 2 gigabytes, and fixed is 20 gigabytes per home. On fixed, you're going to see that go to 60 to 70 gigabytes. So it's just the sheer am

Industry committee  Sure. Thank you. That's a great question. I want to make sure we leave you guys with the right impression. We've made good progress, certainly, on broadband access in Canada, in our view. We're here today more about looking forward and trying to get ahead of this. I think that

Industry committee  Can I help out a bit? There's new infrastructure. It's a great way to solve it. But there are two others. The first is with existing towers. This can be enabled by spectrum, without having to build more towers. The second is, as Mr. Lord pointed out, to keep in mind that a lot of

Industry committee  Here's how I'll put it: because specific companies, specific spectrum frequencies, are less important to us, generally we can use anything, 3.5 or lower. So yes, that is an option, but again a lot of that spectrum is also urban based. That would be less applicable for what we are

Industry committee  That's correct, yes.

Industry committee  Thank you. It's interesting, because we want to keep going back to subsidy. I'll say, just to make sure I'm really clear, that is for rural. That's the only thing I'll comment on; it's for rural broadband deployment. That is not our issue. We have private capital that will do t

Industry committee  No, we did not.

Industry committee  I would suggest that anyone who acquires a spectrum under certain licences and has a period of time to use it should use it within that timeframe. We did not participate in the 2004-05 auction on 3.5. We were able to acquire and deploy our licences, subsequent to that, from priva

Industry committee  When it comes to access to spectrum, we would bring to your attention that the way they are designed and deployed right away creates a bias against rural because of the way they're structured. Back to my example, and we have lots of examples, in order for us to serve Durham we ne

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  Yes. I'd love to talk to them. We announced that next week we'll be offering 10-megabit service, and we usually don't talk about the upload speed, but I think it was raised before. Every consumer package will have a megabit on the upload in rural Canada. So it's not just on the

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  We're very familiar with them, yes.