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432-01192 (Media and telecommunications)

Paper petition

Original language of petition: English

Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled

The Petition of the undersigned residents of Hwy 114 and Mechanic Settlement of Kings county New Brunswick, humbly sheweth that the Honorable assembled members of this House, provide or have provisioned for, we the petitioners to have consistent and reliable Cellular Phone coverage and High speed internet in our area to allow us to:

  1. Have an internet connection with sufficient strength, quality, speed and low latency to allow persons to work from home (uninterrupted two way conferences), students to complete their schoolwork and studies from home.
  2. Be able to make and receive cell phone calls, for business, emergency and general communications from home and area, without the fear of calls being dropped because of insufficient signal strength, quality or both.

As our society moves relentlessly toward the need for ever faster devices and services we the petitioners have very spotty if any cellular service and our so called high speed internet is provided by high orbit satellite which is saddled with a high return latency rates of up to 1 second that completely disallows any real time events due to it's very nature. Although the download speed is sufficient allowing for adequate one way streaming the upload speed coupled with the latency precludes any useful real time two way interactions.

During this troubling time of COVID-19 the need for reliable communications internet and cellular services has become increasingly important. With businesses requiring employees to work from home, participating in online meetings, children and adults completing school courses and assignments from home. While instituting these work and study from home procedures and programs this requirement will become more prevalent and permanent going forward. Making our request ever more urgent.

Whereof your petitioners humbly pray that your Honorable House may be please to take the appropriate action to grant our request as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray.

Presented to the House of Commons
Rob Moore (Fundy Royal)
June 21, 2021 (Petition No. 432-01192)
Photo - Rob Moore
Fundy Royal
Conservative Caucus
New Brunswick

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