The Editor:
Why should a $120 million SaskTel dividend scoop by the Saskatchewan government concern me?
Well, SaskTel just spent cash advertising a province-wide, world-class wireless network. I use wireless at homes, libraries and net cafés in Estevan, Regina, Saskatoon, Lake Alma and Beaubier.
City service can stream files and video at 3G speeds. Back at Lake Alma, 500 feet away from the SaskTel tower, my USB aircard gets a measly 50 kb/s. At home, my land line gets five kb/s and wireless much the same - with numerous dropped connections.
In a world where 3G and 4G are required to run business, and soon educational and medical applications, service providers need cash to deliver this capacity. SaskTel would be reduced to borrowing money to give me this kind of service.
I pay $250/month for land and wireless for what is comparatively speaking, garbage. I feel raped over not as much by SaskTel as their political masters - the deputy ministers and MLA in charge of the ministry responsible for the Crowns.
I support SaskTel primarily because I expect profits to be re-invested to enhance my service. If I get better service, I make more profit and the province gets to tax me.
In a modern society, it takes communication to create wealth ... what about this picture does not compute?
Morris Johnson,
Beaubier, Sask.
