00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.855401 CaOODSP 20221107155307 cr ||||||||||| 180417s2018 oncad ob f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn--- XC39-1/1-421-11E-PDF Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. Broadband connectivity in rural Canada [electronic resource] : overcoming the digital divide / Dan Ruimy, chair. [Ottawa] : House of Commons, Canada, 2018. ix, 43 p. : col. chart, ill. Report of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology ; 11th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session Issued also in French under title: Connectivité à la large bande dans les régions rurales du Canada : combler le fossé numérique. "April 2018." Includes government response. Original published on: 2018/04/17. Republished on: 2018/04/20, 2018/06/05, 2018/06/22. Includes bibliographical references. "Broadband Internet benefits rural and remote communities by bringing them, among other things, education resources, better health services and more economic opportunities. In 2016, acknowledging its importance, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) declared that broadband Internet amounted to an essential service and adopted minimal performance standards across Canada: 50 megabit per second download and 10 megabit per second upload. The CRTC currently collaborates with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to fund broadband deployment in rural and remote areas. However, the evidence presented to the Committee by a variety of stakeholders shows that the digital divide remains prominent in Canada, and that the CRTC targets may not be appropriate to all rural and remote areas"--Summary, p. [1]. Digital divide Rural development Internet Ruimy, Dan, 1962- Connectivité à la large bande dans les régions rurales du Canada (CaOODSP)9.855404 Report of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology ; 11th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (CaOODSP)9.507011 PDF 4.06 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/parl/xc39-1/XC39-1-1-421-11-eng.pdf (report) PDF 4.23 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/parl/xc39-1/XC39-1-1-421-11-1-eng.pdf (government response)