Dear Fellow Campbellvillians!

We all live in a beautiful part of Ontario, and we are blessed with the thriving development in and around Milton - with one major exception that has impacted most of us in recent years, but especially during this pandemic:

Our homes have become our sole refuge, our children's education hub, and for so many of us our only safe place of work and entertainment. Yet, because we have chosen a more remote and naturally physically distanced residence, our potential for connectivity has been chastised.

Access to high-speed fibre internet should not only be the privilege of urban and suburban communities. Their population density offers a greater profit and returns on investment to telecommunications companies, sure, but in a balanced portfolio of any technology service company, there must be conscious business decisions made to cast the net wide enough for everyone to get on board with progress and connectivity.

I have spent several dozens of hours speaking to all of the major telcos over the phone, sent emails to their support centres, written to our city councillors, the MP, and even to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry; just to hear declarations of empathy and reassurance that someone, somewhere is working on something that will sometime from now try to give everyone faster internet, without giving me anyone to hold accountable.

I thought to myself "I'm done." But then, last Friday at 8:30pm, I received a call from a field technician of one of the major regional telcos, who must have received a call from his supervisor to conduct yet another futile field test that would result in the usual "unfortunately, we do not provide fibre internet service in your area". This very friendly technician - who shall remain unnamed here - revealed the hard facts to me:
- the nearest location of a fibre distribution box to my home is 3km away
- the approximate cost of getting fibre to my home is $220,000
- currently, there are no plans in place to expand the fibre network to our area
- to make the fibre network expansion into our area financially viable, the telco would need between 80-90 subscribers to their service

This call was a game-changer because I finally have an objective that can be worked towards, and once achieved, EVERYONE will be happy!

So here is my... no... OUR petition for Fibre Internet for Campbellville. Please sign on in large numbers, and let's get this done with a bang! Because if you don't, the year 2030 will come and go, and you'll still be sending emails at speeds of 0.8Mbps.

Sincerely yours,
Chris Glaessel & Family