Comment Re:As someone who is looking at rural homes.. (Score 1) 381
I live in Canada, but we also have this same sort of pledge to bring high speed internet (not broadband specifically) to rural areas. I've been looking at rural homes, and to be honest, it's a real pain.
There is literally nothing in most parts of rural Ontario that exceed 3mbps down / 1mbps up, and with unlimited (or at least, overage charges that won't make you go broke) caps. If you go the 3G/4G route (which I would love to), many areas don't actually have coverage even if they claim they do, and the caps are 5gb if you're lucky..
I live south of Marmora (Highway 7 about 60 km east of Peterborough) and our only current option is Bell Turbo Hub (10 GB per month before the onset of ass rape.) However it's 4/1.5 most of the time, with surprising low latency. Ironically there's scads of dark fibre about 1 km away under the snowmobile trail (former railroad) that I'd dearly love to tap into.
