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Rick Wilkins has lived and worked on Rufus Lake, 110 kilometres south west of Kapuskasing, for the past 28 years. He runs Rufus Lake Outfitters, a northern oasis for those who love to hunt, fish or just enjoy nature.
Cell phone service ends about 10 kilometres from Kapuskasing
“There was no Internet here when we first came. We didn’t even have phone service,” he said. “You used to have to drive an hour and a half, take a bunch of change and put it in a pay phone. You could talk to the moon at that time, but you couldn’t talk to Rufus Lake,” he joked, “Now we’ve got Internet and life is a whole lot nicer. We can communicate with the world.”
ICT group presses Congress to pass bills on Open Access, Faster Internet Services
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The Better Broadband Alliance (BBA) has called on Congress to pass the Open Access in Data Transmission and Faster Internet Services bills to address poor Internet access, especially in the rural areas.
In a letter sent to House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and Senate President Vicente Sotto III, BBA urged the passage of two key policy reforms to heed Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated calls to improve telecommunications and Internet services.
Citing data from various sources, BBA claimed that Covid-19 and the lockdown restrictions have forced many sectors to deliver services online and revealed the poor state of Internet access. Millions of Filipinos are still unable to access the Internet, including 55% of adult Filipinos, 82% of households, and 83% of all enrolled students in public schools.