Our Goal:
Our goal is to serve all of rural Central
Alberta with low cost robust high speed
Internet. We are not just picking the plums in
the towns and villages or acreage
developments,
we are intent on building the infastructure to provide everyone in
the region equal access. This includes all of the farms and acreages even
if they are hard to reach. It is a practical problem and there is always a way to
solve practical problems.
The reason for the startup package and the network access fee is to speed up the
deployment of serving equipment. The startup package also includes the first 10 months
of service. We take any profits we would make providing that service and apply them
directly to the cost of your serving site. This allows us to move out further and
faster with a better service. Our projections say we won't make any profits for
the first two years. Everything that we make will be plowed back into the infastructure
to provide the best possible service. Even after that period we expect to continuously
improve our infastructure and your service.
I think most of you understand that it costs a lot of money to deploy a high quality
robust service with enough overhead to allow us to scale up service as demand increases.
The startup package allows you to contribute to that in your neighborhood. We do
not expect that this very fast service will make us any more than we would make
from a standard dialup Internet connection. Others have loftier dreams that would
end up costing you a lot of money.
Our goal is to get you the best possible service for the lowest possible price and
to keep your equipment costs as low as possible. It is also our goal to keep our
company debt free.
Our service, while being 80 times faster than Dialup internet, is deliberately priced roughly the same as dialup internet.
Our goal is to make it easy for you to replace your Dialup Internet with true high
speed service and in some cases replace your
phone as well with a VOIP phone. We will have two or three choices of inexpensive
SKYPE phones available at our store in Camrose. SKYPE is a free VOIP service from
Skype user to Skype user and works pretty well.
We plan on covering the entire region we have chosen to serve with a high quality
service, which will include many feeder sites and serving sites. Our goal is to keep
the number of users per serving site low and have more serving sites closer together,
which will give almost everyone a strong signal. We can't guarantee a signal for
everyone, but we can help you overcome the logistal problems that have to be solved
to get you our service. In the end, everyone has to be responsible for their own
location and getting high enough to get service from a serving site. Having lived
most of my life in rural Alberta, I know that you understand that. There are no magic
bullets but their are practical realities that most of you can overcome if we give
you enough information.
My experience with rural Albertans is they are always ready to be responsable for
their own situation and are practical, and in many cases brilliant problem solvers
able to overcome the obsticals their specific location may present.
Together we can solve all of the problems and get everyone the service. This
will just be one more great thing about living in rural Alberta.
The Future :
Technology will advance it can't be stopped. It's not a bad thing. Within
3 to 4 years we will have to start upgrading the serving equipment with the goal
of further increasing the quality and speed of your service.
At that point it will make sense for you to upgrade your receiving equipment as
well in the same way as you upgrade or replace your computer or cell phone every
3 or 4 years. Our job will be to find you the best and lowest cost equipment just
as we do now for your computers. An
upgrade would only involve the radio not the antenna. Even if we upgrade the technology
we will continue to operate the current technology for those who are not ready to
upgrade.
Logistics :
We are officially registering users starting now.
We will go everywhere there is enough demand to justify installing a service. This
is also subject to finding suitable serving sites that we can hit with a bandwidth
backhaul. In areas where service
is imminent we are taking a deposit. In other areas we are just taking your word
and will ask for a deposit just before we install the service so we can confirm
the demand. We will also continue to advertise so we can build the clusters of users
we need to proceed in some areas.
The area where we intend on placing our focus is in and around the following communities:
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| Camrose |
Round Hill |
| Bittern Lake |
Gwynne Bawlf |
| Hay Lakes |
New Norway |
| Ferintosh |
Bashaw |
| Donalda |
Edberg |
| Rosalind |
Daysland |
| Tofield |
Ryley |
| Holden |
Strome |
| Heisler |
Forestburg |
| Alliance |
Killam |
| Sedgwick |
Viking |
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If you live in or near one of these towns or villages it's time to register so we
can include your location in our summer tower construction plans. It just takes
enough people to sign up and we will do the rest.
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