Internet slow For 38% of toronto homes, report says

While 98 per cent of Toronto households are connected to the web, 38 per cent have download speeds below the Canadian radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s national target rate, which is 50 megabits per second, according to a new report from the Brookfield Institute called Mapping Toronto’s digital divide. About half of the city’s low-income households, as well as people 60 years or older, reported slower speeds. More than a third of households in the city worry about paying their internet bills over the next few months, with concerns the highest in households earning less than $30,000 annually, according to the report, which conducted an online and phone survey of 2,500 total Torontonians in late November and early december. Access to a good internet connection has become more important during the pandemic with increased remote work and schooling.