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Sites licensed for fixed wireless access

Positions holding a fixed wireless access or WCS licence, meaning the bands used to deliver internet to a dish on a house rather than to a phone. In a county where wired service stops at the end of many roads, this is the infrastructure behind a large share of residential internet.

per 1,000 permanent residents · current

Divided by the 2025 population, the nearest published to this figure.

1.7× between the largest and the smallest.

per 1,000 person-years · current

Divided by the 2021 population, the nearest published to this figure.

1.5× between the largest and the smallest.

per 1,000 peak residents · current

Divided by the 2021 population, the nearest published to this figure.

1.8× between the largest and the smallest.

What these figures carry

  • Records where operators have licensed and built, not what signal reaches a dwelling. No public source publishes measured signal strength for this county.
  • A licensed site may not be in service, and one site may hold many licences across bands and sectors.

Dysart et al

  • Licensed here for fixed wireless internet: Orion Wireless Partnership, Orion Wireless Partnership (WCS), Xplore Inc. A licence is held, which is not the same as a service being sold at a given address.
  • A subset of the 20 licensed radio sites here. The mobile and fixed wireless counts overlap: 6 of these positions carry both, so they do not add to the total.

Minden Hills

  • Licensed here for fixed wireless internet: Orion Wireless Partnership, Orion Wireless Partnership (WCS), Xplore Inc. A licence is held, which is not the same as a service being sold at a given address.
  • A subset of the 24 licensed radio sites here. The mobile and fixed wireless counts overlap: 8 of these positions carry both, so they do not add to the total.

Highlands East

  • Licensed here for fixed wireless internet: Orion Wireless Partnership, Xplore Inc. A licence is held, which is not the same as a service being sold at a given address.
  • A subset of the 11 licensed radio sites here. The mobile and fixed wireless counts overlap: 3 of these positions carry both, so they do not add to the total.

Algonquin Highlands

  • Licensed here for fixed wireless internet: Orion Wireless Partnership, Xplore Inc. A licence is held, which is not the same as a service being sold at a given address.
  • A subset of the 12 licensed radio sites here. The mobile and fixed wireless counts overlap: 3 of these positions carry both, so they do not add to the total.

Which way is better

Contested. Tower and transmitter counts are infrastructure, not coverage; coverage is the internet metrics. Nothing on this page is ranked, and the bars are ordered by size rather than by merit.

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