Ottawa has tabbed more than $38 million to expand high-speed internet access to 14 rural, mostly Indigenous communities in Manitoba. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * Ottawa has tabbed more than $38 million to expand high-speed internet access to 14 rural, mostly Indigenous communities in Manitoba. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? Ottawa has tabbed more than $38 million to expand high-speed internet access to 14 rural, mostly Indigenous communities in Manitoba.
The bulk of the money to be drawn from the federal government’s $3 billion Universal Broadband Fund went to projects bringing fibre optic networks to Norway House Cree Nation ($12 million) and Pimicikamak Cree Nation ($14.4 million) — two of the largest First Nations in the province, which previously relied on land-line dial-up or fixed wireless line-of-sight service. Some 3,500 households are to be connected across the four projects, including those in Berens River, Bloodvein and Sapotaweyak Cree Nation.
RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS Liberal MP Dan Vandal makes an announcement Friday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg about improving high-speed internet access in rural Manitoba. The construction and design of the systems were done by Indigenous-led companies. Indigenous-owned internet service providers are being created for their own communities.
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