Canada Mirrors U.S. Broadband Policy, Gets Same Crap Results > Had to hit the fan at some point.

said by chelpt:

During these recent Olympics we have been learning many interesting factoids about Canada. Among them, I think is that nearly 90% of their population lives within a 100 miles of the US/CANADA border. With that kind of population density, it would be very likely that your broadband deployment will be very fast. So now that they need to hit up construction in their far out places... is it no wonder?

I tell you what, if any one individual here has the data... why don't you figure out how much it will cost to bury cable for 400 miles to some random town the size of 40 people out in the Permafrost. Then find out how much it will cost to pay people to put the thing together at this new fictional remote.

After that, post it to this web site so that we can really help solve a problem.

My bet is that this may be what causes the government to flinch at helping to fund these things... that the cost would be too high.