Responsibility for Minimum Internet Service - text version

This horizontal bar graph is titled “Responsibility for Minimum Internet Service.” For both the representative and open surveys, it shows the breakdown of answers to the question, “There is discussion today about whose responsibility it should be to ensure that a minimum standard of Internet service is available to all Canadians, particularly in rural and remote areas which of these is closer to your own point of view?” The 1,666 respondents in the representative survey answered as follows:

• CRTC fund, 22%
• Governments, 19%
• Market forces, 14%
• Some combination of these, 39%
• Don’t know/ no response, 5%

The 28,794 respondents in the open survey responded as follows:

• CRTC fund, 20%
• Governments, 28%
• Market forces, 6%
• Some combination of these, 43%
• Don’t know/ no response, 3%

Source: CRTC Broadband Survey, 2016