Dickson sent me this story today about Telus. I recently got rid of my Telus landline and while I am not a big fan of the company, I have been pretty happy with their mobile phone service, and until a couple years ago when I lost my static IP, I was happy with their ADSL service too. That said, the Internet offerings have always been truly “North American”, and by that I mean slow and expensive relative to the rest of the world. Finally though, Telus is going to make some changes:
Telus Corp. says it is investing nearly $800 million over the next three years to beef up its broadband network so it can offer its customers a wide range of new services, including high-definition television.
The company said its proposed infrastructure will allow it to double internet access, to speeds of 15 or 30 megabits a second.
That’s still a far cry from the 100 megabits/second you can get to your house in Hong Kong, for example, but it is markedly better than what we have now. Apparently the entire project will be completed by 2009 (at which time, the rest of the world will probably be faster still).
Read: CBC News
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That’s great news. Now if they’d just finish rolling out DSL to all communities. On Salt Spring we had DSL on about half the Island. Here on Pender … nothing. Cable Internet is it. While my download speeds are better, the upload speeds are far more variable.
The Federal government needs to live up to their promise of high-speed internet for all Canadians, IMHO.
I agree, we are already behind many other countries in the world, and falling farther behind all the time.