{"id":9762,"date":"2021-07-23T14:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:17:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:17:51","slug":"the-future-fix-connecting-your-community-to-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2021\/07\/23\/the-future-fix-connecting-your-community-to-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Fix: Connecting your community to broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spacing<\/em>\u00a0and Evergreen proudly present\u00a0<strong>The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada<\/strong>, a special podcast series.<\/p>\n<h3>THIS EPISODE: Connecting your community to broadband<\/h3>\n<p>Reliable access to the internet is an essential service in any community. But there are barriers to bridging the &#8220;digital divide,&#8221; especially in northern and Indigenous communities. Beyond the technical challenges, every community must choose what sort of broadband service model will serve people the best.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Hickey is the CEO, President and founder of Rock Networks, and he has experience setting up fast internet networks in a variety of communities and explains the various ownership models:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen we talk about community broadband networks, it&#8217;s really our approach to engage with local communities and basically the ownership is the outcome of investment in the network from different parties.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Listen to the podcast for more on broadband ownership and operations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sally Braun is the General Manager of the Western James Bay Telecom Network in Ontario and is overseeing the roll out of a &#8220;Fibre to Home&#8221; service to Attawapiskat, Kashechewan, and Fort Albany. She tells us about the challenges to bringing broadband to northern Indigenous communities, including climate change:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe&#8217;re seeing temperatures that I have never seen in the north&#8230; Really scary weather, tornadoes, high winds. You name it, we&#8217;ve had it thrown at us in the last ten years. You have to be ready for that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Listen to the podcast for more about northern broadband and climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1092919840&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Spacing Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacing Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"The Future Fix: Connecting your community to broadband\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\/the-future-fix-connecting-your-community-to-broadband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Future Fix: Connecting your community to broadband<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9159\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-600x283.png 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue.png 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Future Fix is a partnership between\u00a0<em>Spacing<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreen.ca\/blog\/entry\/evergreen-cityworks-building-sustainable-cities-for-the-urban-century\/\">Evergreen<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the Community Solutions Network: a program of\u00a0<span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/futurecitiescanada.ca\/\">Future Cities Canada<\/a><\/span>. 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The Community Solutions Network is supported with funding provided by Infrastructure Canada.<\/p>\n<div class=\"margin-wrapper\">\n<article id=\"post-9371\" class=\"post-9371 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-civic-engagement category-community category-culture category-podcast category-services\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<article id=\"post-9275\" class=\"post-9275 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-community category-food category-podcast\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Subscribe to the podcast on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/spacing-radio\/id1124077274\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7j3L15Vo36v6MJGXask9HG\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen#\/ps\/Ix2fkh233gvpmmbgtby7exujgt4\">Google Play<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\">SoundCloud<\/a>, or follow our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/users\/soundcloud:users:233628346\/sounds.rss\">RSS feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing\u00a0and Evergreen proudly present\u00a0The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. 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