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Industry committee  For our broadband fund, part of our goal is to ensure there's community involvement. One of our criteria we'll be assessing in the projects is the level of support the projects that are put forward have from the communities. For the people who are going to be submitting applicati

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  As I mentioned, we have the criteria for that, and we expect local, provincial and territorial governments to play a role in helping to bring those priorities to us. We're looking for projects from all regions. As I mentioned, one of the criteria is the community involvement.

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  The CRTC launched a proceeding in February to look at the mobile wireless market...a very broad look at the affordability, the competitiveness and barriers to deployment. I can't discuss any of the specifics on that, because it's an open proceeding, but in the call for comments w

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  I'll talk from what we've done in the past. We had a review a few years ago to look at our 911 system and networks. We did an extensive review making sure that they were resilient and survivable, and we set certain requirements. We found them to be very resilient. These are the

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  No, we're very technology-neutral. We have certain levels we want to get to. We look for innovative solutions to get there.

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  We're a part of the solution. We are stepping up to the table to get the $750 million out. We're looking to get everybody at that level. It does take time to build these networks—

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  The estimates are $8 billion to $9 billion total of investment. The Internet will continue to grow and evolve. I expect that there will be more requirements. As we get to other technologies, there will be more investment requirements. This is something that we will continue to re

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  The design of the fund is such that it's a competitive process, so projects will be evaluated and we will be selecting only the high-quality projects. It's not tied to any specific regions. Of the projects that come in, the projects that get selected will have the high quality, t

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  Our goal is to get everyone to 50/10, and the government has also indicated that, by 2030, it wants everybody at that particular target, and that's what we're working toward as well.

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  There are people without broadband right now, and we're working to get them all there by 2030. That's the certain timeline right now.

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  Right now we have the information on our website; the maps indicate which regions are below the universal service objective. Part of that solution will be based on where the private sector goes; where other public funding extends the network and where—

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  Well, in a general sense, it's really in the more remote regions of Canada, in the rural regions of Canada, and we need to address that.

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  The universal service objective is 50/10 Mbps as a minimum. We want all Canadians to have that. In 2016, we indicated that some very remote regions may require incremental steps to get there. To allow for that, we'll be accepting applications that do not meet the 50/10 initially,

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl

Industry committee  Do you know what the bill item is for?

June 6th, 2019Committee meeting

Christopher Seidl