Asks the federal government to measure mobile coverage by real-world call reliability, including emergency calls and service during power or internet outages, and to use community reports to check coverage maps. It also asks Ottawa to use existing telecom and funding tools to address gaps in rural areas.
Asks the federal government to measure mobile coverage by real-world call reliability, including emergency calls and service during power or internet outages, and to use community reports to check coverage maps. It also asks Ottawa to use existing telecom and funding tools to address gaps in rural areas.
Sponsored by Jessica Fancy (South Shore—St. Margarets) · Liberal
If you live in a rural area with weak or unreliable cell service, federal coverage maps could be based on whether calls actually go through, including 9-1-1 calls. Your reports of service gaps could be used to check those maps.
The full petition text
Canadians rely on mobile phones to contact 9-1-1, receive emergency alerts and maintain essential communication;
Residents of rural and underserved communities continue to report weak, intermittent or unavailable cellular service, including where predicted coverage does not reflect reliable service in practice;
Some households depend on Wi-Fi calling because direct cellular service is inadequate, leaving them without dependable mobile communication when internet service or electrical power is lost;
A predicted cellular signal does not ensure that a basic or emergency call can be completed reliably;
Community-generated evidence can help identify persistent service gaps that predictive coverage mapping may miss; and
Reliable cellular connectivity is therefore an issue of public safety, emergency access and communications resilience.
We, the undersigned,Residents and Citizens of Canada, call upon theGovernment of Canadato: 1. Recognize reliable basic cellular connectivity as an essential component of public safety and emergency communications; 2. Advance federal mobile-coverage reporting standards that measure real-world reliability, including the ability to complete basic and emergency voice calls, rather than predicted signal availability alone; 3. Establish a transparent mechanism through which community reports of persistent cellular gaps can help validate coverage data and inform federal regulatory, spectrum and infrastructure decisions; 4. Include service resilience during power and internet outages as a criterion when assessing basic mobile service; and 5. Use available federal telecommunications, spectrum, infrastructure-sharing and funding authorities to address documented cellular gaps in rural and underserved communities.
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