Broadband Benefits

What can a high-capacity, or broadband connection do for you? Find out how broadband technologies are not only changing the way people do business, think and learn…they’re actually changing lives. Read on to hear more about the possible impacts broadband can have in your community.

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• What can broadband do for your business?
• What can broadband do for your school?
• What can broadband do for your municipal government?
• What can broadband do for your community?
• What can broadband do for agriculture?

What can broadband do for your business?

Broadband can increase productivity by enabling the transfer of large data files directly from local offices to head offices located in other cities, or even other countries.

Employees can access better training opportunities using broadband by logging on to corporate intranets and the Internet to train for new product offerings or to refresh their knowledge on current products or services.

Businesses can use high-capacity Internet to track shipments and to seek out other export markets, enabling them to compete successfully with markets outside the province.

Newspapers, or graphic design firms, that want to keep their business in a rural community can use broadband to send and receive large data files needed for production.

Broadband allows businesses to conduct net-meetings or face-to-face meetings using videoconferencing to discuss urgent decisions, minimizing travel costs for in-person meetings.

What can broadband do for your school?

Broadband connects music students in northern Quebec to violin lessons with musicians in Ottawa using live videoconference.

Students in rural and remote communities can easily surf the Web to visit virtual museums.

Broadband allows students to develop and post original music and video for school projects online.

High-capacity Internet allows teachers to take advantage of many online resources and integrate them into everyday classroom activities.

What can broadband do for your municipal government?

Broadband enables a technology-based customer service centre that allows a one-stop shop for town business transactions, including licensing, billings, permits and utilities payments.

What can broadband do for your community?

Broadband can increase tourism opportunities by enabling online marketing resources to promote local and historical attractions. It also allows for online reservation systems.

High-capacity Internet brings a larger audience and buyers to local artisans and craftspeople, allowing them to promote and sell their work via the Internet.

Aboriginal communities can accumulate and disseminate their cultural information without the connectivity limitations they now face.

Broadband can help ensure that families, businesses and young people in rural and remote areas are not forced to leave in order to find an economic or social future elsewhere.

What can broadband do for agriculture?

Commercial farming operations can use broadband to network and connect barns, enabling the transfer of data between them using wireless communication.

Custom crop spraying operations for grain producers can use broadband to enable voice communication and data transfer to and from operating units and equipment.

Broadband can connect livestock farmers with workers in the fields, family at home and other operations using a wireless communication network.

Information about the farming industry, growing conditions and animal health is more easily accessed with high-capacity Internet.

Broadband opens up opportunity to access larger markets and expanded marketing channels.

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Updated: 2004-02-12

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