March 18, 2010 There are at last count 261 small, rural Alberta communities that could have access to world-class broadband Internet services right now, and the CRTC (the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission) firmly says "no chance, not going to happen, not possible". And they mean it. The CRTC has been fighting right along with Telus to deny thousands of Albertans access to broadband for the last 3 years. I know, because we (my company The Internet Centre, along with Axia NetMedia) are the ones fighting for access against Telus and the CRTC, and we are currently losing. And of course, the CRTC reports and listens to Industry Canada, carrying out telecommunications policies that Industry Canada develops at the pleasure of Cabinet, and the Federal Government. Let me explain. Albertans have always been enthusiastic buyers and users of technology. We saw this in the early days of computer purchases in schools when, during Dave King s tenure as Education Minister, Alberta had one of the highest per capita ratios of computers-to-students in the world. The oil and gas business acquires and uses vast amounts of data, and computing in that industry is considered a strategic weapon. We Albertans are always in the forefront in our use of technology, and; we just expect that we should be world leaders in the use of technology. As owners and managers of some of the world s biggest resources "“ oil, gas, wheat and beef "“ we need technology to stay efficient and responsive. Alberta shoulders a lot of responsibility to the rest of Canada and the world for power and food. We don t need the CRTC and Telus to arbitrarily get in our Alberta way of getting things done. Recently, Alberta separated itself from all Provinces and States in North America by rolling out its visionary Alberta Supernet "“ a fibre optic Ethernet-based network that reaches virtually every community in Alberta. The plan for Alberta Supernet was two-fold: 1) roll out a high speed Broadband Ethernet connection to every Provincial taxpayer supported building in Alberta (schools, hospitals, registry offices, government single and multi-use buildings, etc) and then, 2) as an anchor tenant and owner, rent back to business commercial access to this hugely capable, state of the art network. No other State or Province has done this. No telephone or cable company would invest this kind of money or effort to reach these small population areas, considering that there are higher rates of return on capital for them in the more densely populated parts of the country. But that does not mean that a business can t make money providing services in small town Alberta. It just means that the Bells, the Shaws and the Telus of the world don t see these areas as their first and best investment areas. My little company "“ The Internet Centre "“ has been profitable for years in rural Alberta in providing dialup and DSL services. Other companies and ourselves are also profitable in supplying services to customers by connecting them to the Alberta Supernet where we can.
Berkana Communications Ltd. is Edmonton-based company (Alberta, Canada) with a phone number 7804284343. Our data show that the company is located at the address: 11013 Jasper Ave NW. The company has a web site: www.worldgate.com.
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