Yes and no. I worked for Northwestel (division of Bell) which serves Internet (and phone, and TV) for ALL of Yukon, NWT, Nunavut and some of Northern BC. It ha

Yes and no. I worked for Northwestel (division of Bell) which serves Internet (and phone, and TV) for ALL of Yukon, NWT, Nunavut and some of Northern BC. It has the largest operating area of any Telco on the planet. In virtually all communities they are the one and only provider. Yes, it's expensive. Yes, the CRTC is corrupt, and the whole setup is just guaranteed profits to the big telcos. But, you need to think about how hard it is to serve internet to communities of 20-100 people in the Canadian Arctic that don't have roads. There are hundreds of such communities served. There are weekly outages because of everything from ice build up on the towers at -50C, wind storms blowing down towers, Caribou eating through cables, etc. etc. Most outages require chartering a helicopter and going to the top of mountains 300km from a road or town of noteworthy size. Canada is BIG and the Arctic is REMOTE.