Tazca Connects to Offer Faster Access in Ontario

Broadband is, on some levels, a problem just about everywhere. It's difficult to find it at all in some places, and in others, issues of speed or quantity emerge. But there are often those looking to improve the state of broadband as it's known today, and Core Broadband is one of these. In aid of that, Core Broadband turned to Tazca Connects to help drive Internet connectivity in Canada's Ontario. But there are those that note this development is particularly interesting in that Tazca Connects is a U.S-based firm.

Core Broadband was looking for a way to step up connectivity in Muskoka, Ontario, and as such began looking to 4G LTE. Tazca Connects offered a great way to do exactly that in the form of its LTE-as-a-Service system, which uses the Lemko Corporation's LTE software platform to bring 4G LTE connectivity to some places where it may not have been previously seen. With the new fixed wireless broadband service, Core Broadband can step up its overall footprint and bring connectivity into a wider field of rural Canada. Plus, it can do so for a lower up-front expense as well as less than normal operational costs, a development that will likely prove welcome for Core Broadband itself.

The combination, despite its geographic separation, actually looks to be a sound one. Core Broadband can step up its offerings with comparatively lower pricing and Tazca Connects can get its services into more locations with more reward accordingly. It's an opportunity that's tough to pass up on both sides, especially as the wider market is constantly hungry for more and faster access. Getting such access to these locations—particularly in the case of rural broadband, is often limited. It can be difficult and cost-intensive. Some have turned to DSL for its connection to already in-place phone lines to help, but that's not always available for one reason or another, sometimes more than one at once. Tazca Connects, meanwhile, can help offer this thanks to some impressive download speeds—reports suggest the company can offer as much as 150MBps speeds—and a solid number of users per tower, around 2000 at last report. That many users on one tower could cover some entire small villages, let alone countryside areas where a comparatively small number of users are spread out over a wide radius.

There's no denying that rural locations want high-speed Internet access; the country-dweller is often just as interested in spending an evening with Netflix streaming as the city-dweller is, perhaps even more so owing to the comparative lack of social and cultural opportunities the country affords. The economic benefits of Internet access—from being able to more readily find available work in a local area to being able to work remotely into other areas to even being able to start a business out of whole cloth—are quite clear and quite substantial, which is particularly valuable for the countryside where economic downturns are more readily felt.

Only time will tell just how well the combination of Core Broadband and Tazca Connects works for the people in the Muskoka region, but it's a safe bet that getting more access in said users' hands will be a welcome development indeed for all concerned.