CTS 15: Xplornet’s Lenehan challenges industry to hit 100 Mbps for all by 2020

TORONTO – The CEO of rural broadband provider Xplornet issued an industry-wide challenge to his fellow carriers Wednesday, asking them to commit to developing their networks so they can offer broadband speeds of 100 Mbps to 100% of Canadians by 2020.The company, which serves over 600,000 Canadians who live and work outside or on the fringes of urban centres, has already made strides in boosting speeds beyond the 5 Mbps which CRTC and the federal government currently consider as the minimum threshold for broadband. All of Xplornet’s footprint (meaning, all of Canada, since its fixed wireless and satellites cover coast...