Rural high-speed?

[Fraser Campbell]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 21:39:10 John McGregor wrote:
> Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> > HOWEVER. They're now too far from Bell to do Sympatico DSL and _way_ too
> > out of Rogers' reach.
> >
> > Are they doomed to dialup? Are there any satellite or other high-speed
> > options?
>
> Do they have cell phone service? Rogers has a cell based high speed
> service that might work. It's $49.95 / mo.
> Details here:
>
> http://www.rogers.com/web/content/internet-portable

I'm also moving to the boonie's soon so I've researched it a little bit. Bell 
also has a wimax-type solution, wikipedia may reveal a few alternatives - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Deployed_WiMAX_networks

In my case Bell claims DSL is coming to my new neighbourhood so I may be lucky 
enough to stay with Teksavvy.

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