Alternative Federal Budget calls for national strategy on broadband
March 3, 2010
The Alternative Federal Budget 2010 contains the following recommendations designed to bring Canada's communications infrastructure into the 21st century:
1. Make access to "effective" bandwidth a legal right for all Canadians.
2. Fund a broad national consultation on modernizing communications policy: $750,000.
3. Support new and existing national public access sites: $40M.
4. Begin planning forn next generation (higher speed) broadband.
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