A FULLY BROADBAND-ENABLED RURAL ALBERTA
The following hypothetical but entirely plausible scenario is intended to illustrate the relevance of broadband telecommunication to the future of Alberta’s rural communities. The setting is east-central Alberta in the year 2020.
Eight years earlier, the region’s municipal governments partnered with provincial government in building a water distribution system to bring a safe and secure supply of potable water to farms, towns and villages throughout the region. During the build, a spare conduit was simultaneously plowed in alongside the water conduit. Later that year, in partnership with government and private interests, the region’s municipalities used the spare conduit to deploy an optical fibre-to-the-premise network. This highly capable and future-proof network now supports state-of-the-art broadband telecommunication services for homes, businesses and industries throughout the region.
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