The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of digital connectivity for remote work and learning, building and sustaining communities, and fostering economic prosperity. Yet high-speed internet is unavailable in more than half of all rural communities in Canada. How can 5G adoption help, and what spectrum policy is needed to bridge the urban-rural divide?

Join us on Jan. 26 for a conversation on spectrum policy and the economic and social impact of connectivity across Canada, with Kalvin Bahia, principal economist at GSMA; Helaina Gaspard, director, governance and institutions at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at uOttawa; and Denise Williams, CEO of the First Nations Technology Council. The event will be hosted by David Reevely, reporter for The Logic, with opening remarks from Jacob Glick, vice-president of public policy at TELUS.

Connecting Canada: 5G, spectrum policy and closing the digital divide