OTTAWA — As part of its strategy to tackle rural broadband in Canada, the Liberal government today announced its first spending commitment to a project that will use low earth orbit satellites to connect Canada’s most remote areas — an approach to rural broadband that has yet to be successfully deployed.
The CRTC has granted Base Technology Ltd. up to $750,000 Wednesday to roll out broadband in rural British Columbia. The money comes from the commission’s Broadband Fund. The company’s plan will...
Telus Corp. Monday unveiled a program to connect Indigenous communities to its network, in which the company sets out a five-year timeline of goals to be achieved. This year the telecom connected...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), by having rural and Indigenous connectivity initiatives lumped together, ignores the “very different” economics of connecting the two,...
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