Industry committee  No, I didn't get the translation, nor did I get the French, so could you repeat the question?

Industry committee  You said specifically wireless. If you look at wireless broadband adoption and if you look at the OECD data, Canada is quite far behind some of the leading countries. More than 50% of broadband connections in Australia now are wireless connections. That is not true in Canada. The question is, why is that?

Industry committee  No, I don't think so. Part of the Australian experience is showing that people are choosing to take high-speed connections that are provided to them on the national broadband network. At the moment, the rollout has not served a huge number of Australians yet, but those who are using the fixed broadband network are doing what was said by Mr.

Industry committee  I'd like to reinforce the issue of adoption. I think a really important question here is how we can ensure that people understand the value of broadband networks to really enable socio-economic benefit and to enable participation in society. So it's more than just having access to speed.

Industry committee  I think the challenge in the Canadian market is that while we have competition, we don't necessarily see the full effects of that competition. If we're looking at effective competition, we want to see lots of choice. So if you go back to that number of 75% of Canadians having 50-megabit-per-second service, that's only from one carrier.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  The International Telecommunication Union, which is a regulatory body but it also looks at broadband for development, has a broadband commission. One of the reports the broadband commission has done is to look at the development of broadband plans. It's more of a document with a few pages.

Industry committee  Well, one successful Canadian municipality, one of the ones we looked at years ago that is still managing to maintain good connectivity, is the City of Fredericton. Fredericton is interesting because the municipality owns that fibre ring, so they're able to take excess capacity on that.

Industry committee  Okay. The answer to how we stack up against the world isn't an easy one. I'm not aware of a good source of data to measure that. Akamai, which is the contribution distribution network, broadly speaking, produces the report each quarter on the state of the Internet. They used to look at cities, so they measured broadband speed in cities, and the last time they did that was 2011.

Industry committee  Great. Thank you very much for making this possible. My name is Catherine Middleton. I'm an academic at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto. I have focused on the development and use of broadband networks in Canada since the late 1990s. My focus is primarily residential and consumer use.