COMMENTARY: Should governments boost broadband?

FORMER CABLE ATLANTIC OWNER, and current Newfoundland & Labrador premier Danny Williams is ticked off these days. His government is getting strafed by daily opposition fire over the recently announced deal to bring another undersea fibre link from the mainland to The Rock. The $52-million project is backed with $15 million in provincial government money and will be built by a consortium of Persona Communications, Rogers Communications and MTS Allstream. From what's been published in the press out east, the opposition Liberals don't seem to care about the project's potential benefits – which are likely many – and are instead...