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Fixed-wireless providers unfairly excluded from ISED funding plans: CanWISP

Briefs | 11/22/2022 9:33 am EST
Minister of Innovation François-Philippe Champagne on Sept. 14, 2020./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

CanWISP, the trade organization that represents fixed wireless and rural internet service providers, has written a letter to Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings complaining of a “troubling situation” in the way the department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) is treating rural service providers.

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