Mines not all that bad... though the real benefit of mine is we pay for unlimited bandwidth
Trudeau needs to fix the government's definition of broadband, and chance the mistakes that Harper made. 5mb/s should not be a minimum.
Upping the limit before something can be called broadband is a good idea, but Robellus will be more than happy to just strip the term from their packages, keep the same price for items under that limit and then up the price of actual broadband while maybe slapping on a surcharge for the change.
That said, if the problem we are trying to fix is access in rural areas, the only way we can realistically handle it is either the government building the infrastructure itself, the government creating an infrastructure fund to incentivize it to be built, or the telecom industry suddenly finds itself being altruistic and building it itself.
Of course though, the third will never happen, we already tried the second option and it was mostly used to embellish profits, so what's left over is the first... or the second, granted the government states that they will legally slaughter any corporation that uses the fund and does not have any improvements to show for it.
I personally think I would prefer if they reformed the CRTC to include Consumer Protection of it's industries within it's mandate. You know, something that forces them to go for the throat of our Telecom and Cable Industry. Another good idea would be legislation forcing companies to share their infrastructure at a reasonable price.
