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Re:Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Nego... by grawprog on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:21PM (#19057501)
Access to CBC in rural areas has actually gotten worse since the switch to digital only broadcasting a while back. My dad hasn't had cablr for years now he lost CBC shortly after that on the Sunshine Coast. Even after buying and then modifying and improving a couple digital antennas now.
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Re:Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Nego... by 52-6F-62 on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:24PM (#19059769)
That’s really too bad. I’d heard about that and I was going to experiment with one at my grandfathers in rural Ontario.

Anybody know much about extended those signals or successfully increasing the gain locally?

Sounds like an interesting and probably expensive problem which is why I am going to guess for now more effort hasn’t been made to extend those signals further.

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Re:Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Nego... by conservajerk on Friday February 01, 2019 @04:52PM (#19059066)
My parents have the same issue in Northern BC. When I was growing up we had two channels. They now have no channels.
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Re:Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Nego... by Scoundreller on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:05PM (#19059194)
It’s surprising that they’ve never leased space on a free-to-Air satellite service. Or just mandated free carriage when issuing distribution licenses.
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