The Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN), the Province of Ontario, the federal government, and Rogers Communications Inc. Friday announced a $300 million project with the goal of connecting 99 per cent of homes, businesses and major roads in the eastern Ontario region with wireless service. Of the total funding for the project, Rogers has committed $150 million, with the provincial and federal government each committing $71 million, and the remaining $10 million from the Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus and Eastern Ontario Mayors’ Caucus. EORN, which is spearheading the Cell...
Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef said that the federal government is hoping to promote competition within the telecommunications sector as it awards funding for projects from the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF). “Our government also believes in competition...and connecting as many Canadians as quickly as possible, we’re working very closely with communities themselves to move this forward,” Monsef said during a press conference on Thursday at which she announced the funding of $6.75 million worth of broadband projects in southern British Columbia. Monsef pointed...
Government officials have indicated that the newly-launched Universal Broadband Fund will seek to allow for affordable internet pricing across Canada, although it will not impose many firm or fixed affordability requirements on...
The $2 billion Canadian Infrastructure Bank rural broadband fund will seek...
The federal government announced the launch of its long-awaited Universal Broadband Fund Monday morning,...
The Liberal government is doubling the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s...
With Tuesday's prorogation of Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has put the brakes on a number of telecom-related studies underway in various House of Commons committees. The House industry committee had been working on a pair of reports, one about how to deal...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development on Tuesday announced that it would be funding two separate projects in rural Quebec under its $585 million Connect to Innovate program. In a release, ISED said it was giving just...
At a discussion about Ottawa’s now-delayed Universal Broadband Fund with...
An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to...
The federal government will open applications for its $1.7 billion...
Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef says “precise...
Universal connectivity at the CRTC’s universal service objective speeds...
An NDP plan for the federal government to add money raised from past and...
The federal government’s upcoming $1.7 billion Universal Broadband Fund won’t use the...
Rural home internet speeds during the first full month where Canadians shifted to working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic were almost 12 times slower than the median speed for urban Canadians, according to speed test analysis conducted by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. According to results of the CIRA’s Internet Performance Test, performed on 3,280 rural homes and 13,876 urban ones during April, the median home internet download speed in rural Canada decreased to 3.78 Mbps, while the median speed in urban Canada increased to 44.09 Mbps, 11.7 times faster. The...
Under a rural broadband policy platform put out for public consultation by...
The federal government will speed up its rural broadband funding in...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...