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32% of Indigenous households at below 5 Mbps: gov’t projections

News | 06/17/2019 6:35 pm EDT
Parliament Hill on July 5, 2018./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

The federal government expected contributions from its broadband programs, including Connecting Canadians and Connect to Innovate (CTI), to slash by half the number of Indigenous households that don’t have access to at least 5 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload by this year, according to a confidential August 2018 document.

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