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A group of concerned internet
providers was concerned they were
getting squeezed out of area
broadband projects, so they aired
their concerns to Huron County
Council at council’s June 12
Committee of the Whole meeting.
Glenn Grubb, general manager at
HuronTel, Angela Schneider,
general manager at Hay
Communications and Rob Van
Aaken, general manager of
Tuckersmith Communications told
council they were concerned that the
Western Ontario Warden’s Caucus
(WOWC) was cutting out local
internet providers with its rural
broadband feasibility study.
The caucus began reaching out to
local residents earlier this year
through the survey, looking for
information on current broadband
services in an attempt to find out
where improvements were needed
and where local providers were
excelling.
Grubb said that through
discussions with other local internet
providers, he began wondering
exactly what was behind the study,
fearing that some of Canada’s
largest internet providers were going
to be brought in.
Grubb told councillors that over
the years, the independent providershad worked tirelessly to build the
infrastructure to deploy broadband
throughout Huron County.
He said that over the last five
years, providers have invested over
$50,000,000 in broadband
infrastructure throughout the county.
That investment, he said, has
resulted in over 50 per cent of Huron
County’s population having access
to an “ultra broadband” connection.
He added that the providers do not
plan to stop there, and that
investment will continue in the
future.
Grubb also highlighted some of
the independent providers’ more
high profile customers, saying that
these businesses and establishments
couldn’t function on a day-to-day
basis without the internet service
being consistently provided. Those
customers include the County of
Huron and all of its lower tier
municipalities, both the Avon
Maitland District School Board and
the Huron-Perth Catholic District
School Board, the Huron-Perth
Healthcare Alliance, Wescast
Industries, Sparling’s Propane,
Huron Tractor, United Community
Credit Union and Hensall Co-op,
among others.
The group’s concerns, as laid out
by a powerpoint presentation, are
“that the WOWC’s intent is to
overlap or leverage our existingnetworks, undermining our existing
customer base and threatening our
continued rural build out” as well as
“that the WOWC may also view
Huron County as well served and
undeserving of equitable
infrastructure funding.”
Grubb told councillors that local
providers make their money in the
Huron County community and
therefore they spend and re-invest
that money back into the
community.
Huron East’s Bernie MacLellan
said that Grubb’s concerns couldn’t
be further from the truth and that the
caucus was working to help improve
the timeline to implement better
broadband throughout
underserviced areas of Huron
County.
MacLellan told Grubb that the
intent of the caucus was to try and
secure funds to help local providers
speed up the infrastructure process.
For example, he said, if it was going
to take between five and seven years
to build more broadband
infrastructure, the caucus wanted to
try to secure funding that could
possibly cut that time down to two
years.
MacLellan said, however, that the
caucus was waiting on a report that
is over a month late, so he’s still not
sure where the funding request sits.
He added that the caucus had nointention of not supporting the local
internet providers.
In fact, he said, many councillors
were surprised to hear just how
connected Huron County is.
Grubb, as part of his presentation,
shone a light on Stratford, which has
been honoured as a leading
“intelligent community” due to its
broadband connectivity. Grubb told
councillors that Huron County is
“far more” connected than Stratford
and local providers need council’s
help to try and advertise that fact.
Howick’s Art Versteeg said there
was one aspect of the presentation
that stuck with him. After hearing so
much about Stratford’s connectivity,he said, he was surprised to hear that
his own home Huron County is
better connected than Stratford.
Goderich Mayor Deb Shewfelt
said he was also surprised to know
the extent of Huron County’s
connectivity. He called the
presentation “very enlightening”
adding that council could be doing a
lot more to advertise the county’s
connectivity to the rest of the
province.
North Huron’s Neil Vincent called
Huron County’s independent
internet providers “trailblazers”
praising them for the work they’ve
done throughout the county.
A Maitland River Elementary
School Grade 6 student from
Wingham has decided how the
school will represent itself by
crafting its new logo.
Lexi Brown designed a logo
featuring two horses in front of a
purple circle branded with the
school’s name as well as its team
name, Triumph.
“Lexi is a very talented artist and
the entire design was her idea,”
Maitland River Elementary School’s
principal Alice McDowell said. “It
was very well done, it needed
minimal work before it was ready
for print.”
McDowell said that, through the
voting process, also called a
dotmocracy, there weren’t any
designs that came a close second to
Broadband providers worried about getting squeezed
School reveals new logo
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