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CIB, UBF to collaborate on projects that fall between market cracks

News | 11/13/2020 12:08 pm EST
Chair of the board of the Canada Infrastructure Bank Michael Sabia at an announcement about the infrastructure bank from Sir John A. Macdonald building in Ottawa on Oct. 1, 2020./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

The $2 billion Canadian Infrastructure Bank rural broadband fund will seek to fund projects that fall in the gap between profitable connectivity projects the market could support on its own, and projects that would be mostly or entirely reliant on the Universal Broadband Fund, which launched Monday.

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