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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

our telecom infrastructure is privately owned.

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.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

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.