Ninety-nine households out of a hundred in a Canadian city can order an internet plan that hits 50 megabits per second down and 10 up. Drive an hour past the last big-box store and that number drops to about 87. Head onto a First Nations reserve or into the territories and, depending on whose data you trust, it falls to around two in three. That, in short, is rural internet in Canada. The gap is the whole story. The country has spent roughly a decade and several billion dollars trying to close it, and on paper the progress is real.…
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