Bill Barrett
CEO, Xplornet

The Internet will become critical to our daily lives. The Internet will "follow us" in our daily lives (home-car/mobile-office-car-home) and services with "synched" wireless mobile connectivity will become a way of life.

Canadians are going to require high-speed services no matter where they are in Canada, and access wireless connectivity in places never imagined. In fact, in many ways that are obvious today and in many ways that will only become apparent in the future, this access for rural Canada and remote communities will, more than any recent technology evolution, create an economic, cultural and social level of parity, if you will, a level playing field.

The ever-increasing utilization of the Internet and the expanded rich content is going to stress the current backbone to Service Providers. The Internet infrastructure is also going to have to be expanded to include remote locations, and mobile destinations. Ultimately, spectrum is going to become very scarce and valuable.

We believe that we most often err by optimistically overestimating the pace of adoption of technology changes initially but, we have a tendency to underestimate its overall impact on society. To put simply, information is knowledge, knowledge is the key that unlocks the future…for everyone. We can't even begin to dream of the applications that we will be using Internet services for in the next decade.