High-speed internet expanded to more remote communities

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Fourteen more First Nations and remote communities will start getting much better high-speed internet connections thanks to the federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund.

Four separate projects in rural Manitoba received a total of $38 million from the fund that will allow large communities like Norway House and Pimicikamak (Cross Lake) to transition from dial-up and microwave to high-speed fibre.

Manitoba projects have received close to $300 million from the fund since 2020. But whereas 95 per cent of Canadian households have access to high-speed internet today only 85 per cent of households in Manitoba have access to the technology.

Some of the funding in this latest round is going to First Nation-owned internet service providers and infrastructure companies.