{"id":12214,"date":"2018-07-23T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2018-07-23T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:07:30","slug":"competition-for-rural-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=12214","title":{"rendered":"Competition for rural broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2017, TekSavvy and Entegrus Transmission (part of the Chatham and St. Thomas, Ontario based electric utility) <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2LJ2PlU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presented a report<\/a> to the Chatham-Kent Municipal Council recommending a fibre-based broadband project for the Chatham-Kent region of Southwestern Ontario. A month later, <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2A9YVAS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chatham-Kent&#8217;s Council<\/a> passed a motion to endorse and support a proposal by Teksavvy and Entegrus for Connect to Innovate funding from the federal government. Funding for this project has not been approved yet.<\/p>\n<p>In a related but different project, <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2LKPaLb\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TekSavvy announced plans<\/a> earlier today to invest up to $26M to &#8220;connect more than 38,000 residences and businesses in the region, starting in Chatham with plans to expand to Blenheim, Ridgetown, Tilbury, and Wallaceburg.&#8221; According to TekSavvy, the Municipality of Chatham-Kent intends to invest $6.5 million to facilitate an open-access fibre backbone connecting the communities. This represents about 20% of the $32.5M total project. <\/p>\n<p>Exactly two months ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2zZu9e9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bell and the municipality announced plans<\/a> to roll out fibre to 38,000 premises, &#8220;starting in Chatham and expanding to Blenheim, Ridgetown, Tilbury and Wallaceburg.&#8221; In <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2LEm0x0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bell&#8217;s press release<\/a>, the project was described as fully funded by Bell, without taxpayer contributions to the capital cost.<\/p>\n<p>A number of thoughts come to mind. <\/p>\n<p>I found it interesting that the two press releases use almost identical language and list the planned roll-out in the same order. In the TekSavvy release, the Chief Administrative Officer for the Municipality is said to be &#8220;heartened that this local company is working with the Municipality in its goal to bring advanced communications services to the community.&#8221; The same person is quoted in the Bell press release, saying &#8220;the Chatham project is the first phase of bringing Bell\u2019s advanced communications services to the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If broadband adoption rates are in the order of 85% in the area, and Teksavvy captures 50% of the market, then the Municipality contribution works out to a subsidy of just over $400 per Teksavvy subscriber.<\/p>\n<p>The regional municipality has succeeded in recruiting competitive provision of broadband in its collection of smaller towns. What isn&#8217;t clear is why taxpayers are funding one of the competing networks and whether this changes the economics of building in some of the lighter density areas within these communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2017, TekSavvy and Entegrus Transmission (part of the Chatham and St. Thomas, Ontario based electric utility) presented a report to the Chatham-Kent Municipal Council recommending a fibre-based broadband project for the Chatham-Kent region of Southwestern Ontario. A month later, Chatham-Kent&#8217;s Council passed a motion to endorse and support a proposal by Teksavvy and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=12214\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Competition for rural broadband<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Competition for rural broadband &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In March 2017, TekSavvy and Entegrus Transmission (part of the Chatham and St. Thomas, Ontario based electric utility) presented a report to the &#8226; 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