Abstract This paper examines the future of the Internet in Canada. It focuses on the regulatory model provided by the CRTC and its relevance to cyberspace. In a broader sense it considers issues such as the Internet's impact on individuals as consumers and as citizens and media ethics in cyberspace.
Abstract This paper discusses how although providing ubiquitous broadband access to all Canadian communities has been a pet project of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) since at least 2001, independent analysis does not support the viability of the prospect. The paper further discusses how the liberal government began stressing the issue in that year under the banner of making Canada the most wired nation in the world at the forefront of advances in the telecommunication industry (Grace, 2001). However, the potential for successfully achieving such a goal is limited.
A paper arguing that every Canadian should have access to a high speed Internet connection and that the government should make the phone and cable companies responsible for offering a basic Internet plan that is affordable by everyone.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, 2006, $ 44.95
Abstract There can be little question that Canadians now live and work in an information age. Even more indisputably, small businesses and independent professionals who lack ready access to broadband computer services are missing out on the kind of instantaneous electronic transfer of information that is crucial for success, if not survival in the new global marketplace. With these realities uppermost in mind, this paper argues that every Canadian so far as possible should have access to a high speed Internet connection. The writer of the paper also argues that local phone and cable companies should be expected by the Canadian government to offer a basic plan that almost every Canadian can afford.
