Why Do Rural Areas Need High-Speed Internet?
Across both the United States and Canada, the pandemic has fueled a widespread emigration out of cities and major urban areas to more rural regions. With the rise in remote working, young professionals and families prize the space, quieter communities, …
Building for the Future: Bringing Broadband to All Canadians with the UBF
We recently wrote about how in the United States the FCC awarded a staggering $9.2 billion from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) to bring high-speed internet to underserved communities and regions across the U.S. In Canada, it’s the Universal …
How to Maximize Broadband Access Outside your Service Areas and Maintain Quality
If your users live in rural areas where typical internet speeds aren’t fast (especially if they’re working from home) there are some options to fix this problem. One technique of extending broadband access to end users located beyond the serving …
Why fiber-optic networks are vital to rural connectivity
Remember when fiber broadband was a premium offering available only in select regions? That was when your job involved more copper and coax enclosures than fiber enclosures. For the majority of broadband installers now, those days are long gone. Today, …