[GTALUG] Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto

[David Collier-Brown]

City's own announcement: 
https://www.toronto.ca/news/connectto-program-aims-to-increase-digital-equity-and-access-to-affordable-high-speed-internet-in-toronto/


On 2021-01-29 7:21 a.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
>
> The best is probably the Star's article, 
> https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2021/01/26/torontos-broadband-plan-an-indictment-of-crtcs-delay-on-affordable-internet.html
>
> Sources, from the original article
>
>   * Agenda Item: Affordable Internet for All - City of Toronto
>     http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2021.EX20.8
>   * Mapping Toronto’s Digital Divide - Ryerson Leadership Lab
>     https://www.ryersonleadlab.com/digital-divide
>   * Toronto’s Broadband Plan an Indictment of CRTC’s Delay on
>     Affordable Internet - The Star
>     https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2021/01/26/torontos-broadband-plan-an-indictment-of-crtcs-delay-on-affordable-internet.html
>   * Want Faster, Cheaper Internet? Let’s Build It - OpenMedia
>     https://openmedia.org/article/item/want-faster-cheaper-internet-lets-build-it
>   * Hope Springs Municipal: How Small Towns are Driving Canada’s
>     Digital Future - OpenMedia
>     https://openmedia.org/article/item/hope-springs-municipal-how-small-towns-are-driving-canadas-digital-future
>   * Remarks by the President on Promoting Community Broadband - The
>     White House
>     https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/14/remarks-president-promoting-community-broadband
>   * Community-Owned Fibre Network: Value Leaders in America - Harvard
>     https://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.harvard.edu/files/2018-01-10-Pricing.Study_.pdf?data1=TotRev
>   * Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the
>     U.S. Broadband Problem - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
>     https://community-wealth.org/sites/clone.community-wealth.org/files/downloads/report-daggett.pdf
>
> On 2021-01-29 6:31 a.m., ac via talk wrote:
>> Some web links, PLEASE?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:29:37 -0500
>> James Knott via talk<talk at gtalug.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 2021-01-28 8:52 p.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
>>>> Hydro was "purchasable"
>>>>   
>>> ????
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