ANALYSIS: An easy, immediate, way to increase rural broadband speeds rests in ISED's hands

By Mark Goldberg IN SPEAKING WITH some operators of rural fixed wireless networks, it appears there may be an easy way for the government to help ratchet up broadband speeds. A number of us in rural markets are using fixed wireless service. These days, one of the biggest challenges facing internet service providers (ISPs) is the heavy use by each user. While there may be enough capacity from the tower to home, many rural ISPs have capacity issues from the towers to the backbone network. Ideally, those towers are connected by fibre, but in many cases, that umbilical is itself...