The pandamic has signficantly changed the average residential broadband consumption, according to OpenVault.

At the end of the first quarter rose to 402.5GB, an increase of 47% compared to the first quarter 2019’s average of 273.5 GB and a 17 percent rise over the 344 GB in the fourth quarter of last year.
OpenVault Broadband Industry Report (OVBI)

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A High Capacity Rural Network is designed to
scale as this demand continues to increase. The
architecture supports multiple Internet providers
which lowers high network infrastructure capital costs, improves competition, and ultimately lowers the monthly costs for rural subscribers.

ViTel has successfully designed and built five (5) High Capacity Rural Networks in Alberta rural communities including: Parkland County, Lac Ste Anne County, Saddle Hills County, Brazeau County, and Yellowhead County.​

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A High Capacity Rural Network offers the following advantages:

​​Deployment of a single network architecture supporting Broadband, Public Safety, and Cellular communications; 
Scales to meet the bandwidth demand today and in the future;

Municipality chooses to deploy between either Fiber or Wireless services to specific areas depending upon the subscriber density and bandwidth requirements; 

​Flexibility of the architecture allows the municipality to improve connectivity between geographically dispersed municipal locations.