You look at Norway, Sweden and Finland, and you will find geography on-par with BC’s west coast and then some. And yet, they have full wired Internet access and LTE data throughout the region.
We are a little bit bigger then those countries. With vast areas of nothing between cities. Just need a reason for them to build look at Alberta coverage map. Way more coverage then other provinces heard it was because of oil industry but not sure.
Because we have a huge ass geography and unfortunately, our telecom infrastructure is privately owned. So…
Telcos have gouged us and provided shit service in all ways.
This is the crux of the matter.
You look at Norway, Sweden and Finland, and you will find geography on-par with BC’s west coast and then some. And yet, they have full wired Internet access and LTE data throughout the region.
So geography is not a viable excuse.
There is more unoccupied land adjacent to highways in Ontario alone than there is land in the entirely of any of those countries.
It’s not the geography, it’s the sparseness of population over a massive landmass.
We are a little bit bigger then those countries. With vast areas of nothing between cities. Just need a reason for them to build look at Alberta coverage map. Way more coverage then other provinces heard it was because of oil industry but not sure.
That’s it.
They can’t justify the cost of building a tower if it won’t generate enough billable minutes to pay for itself before the hardware becomes obsolete.
Telus can’t even get proper coverage for one of the biggest cities in the country in my experience
It’s probably because of mountains. AGT isn’t really good with non-flat land.