Beulah Paul, an ACORN member from East York told her story.
Canada’s internet services are a patchwork of plans without a universal program that can easily be adapted to support all low-income people.Connecting Families program And finally, the internet speed of 10 MBps is too slow, forcing many families to opt out. It does not allow people to live stream or families with multiple children to use the internet at the same time. Internet speed is critical, especially when schools moved online and where some students continue to learn.
As of March 29 the program has sent 175,000 letters with access codes to families and 133,000 letters to seniors. Recipients have to enrol quickly or they may be out of luck because of limited spots. And even if they are able to register, they will only reap the benefit if the telecom serves their area.internet access for 220,000 families and seniors, but that represents just 10 per cent of all low-income families and seniors in Canada, according to StatsCan figures.
Why would the government build a broadband network when the private sector has already built a number of options in the city? The govt is good at many things but building broadband networks to compete with existing commercial offerings isn’t one of them.
The private sector offers plenty of options. If you can’t afford it then go to the library or community center and use the internet there. No freebies!
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it should of been a crime to not allow low income families free internet during the pandemic and home schooling kids and all libraries were closed !! do you think rogers or bell helped a single mom on welfare! NO!!! making money is more important then helping during a pandemic!
Agree we need affordable internet esp for those w/low incomes but it needs to be a national program not a municipal program. It should be based on income not just receipt of certain benefits. Rogers offers Connected for Success which offers unlimited 25 Mbps internet for $10.
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Hahaha, who can beat the 3 mafia network & they protectors CCTS_CPRST -CRTCeng -liberal_party . They force the new kid on the block 'Beanfield ' who has affordable fast internet $49.99 for 1 GB to serve only rich people living in High-end Condominium.
No ! after all the insanity, disinformation, misinformation , outright BS caused by the internet . Stop unplug and smash it to pieces Humanity can't handle it .