Tuesday’s federal budget will include money to extend or improve high-speed internet access to 280,000 households and businesses in rural and remote areas, CBC News has learned.
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Tuesday’s federal budget will include money to extend or improve high-speed internet access to 280,000 households and businesses in rural and remote areas, CBC News has learned.
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About 98 per cent of Albertans have high speed-Internet access, including many residents in rural and remote areas, as a result of the Alison Redford government’s Final Mile Initiative launched in 2012.
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Ultrafast internet speeds that most Canadian city dwellers can only dream of will soon be available to all 8,500 residents in a rural Alberta community for as little as $57 a month, thanks to a project by the town’s non-profit economic development foundation.
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In this day and age of technology, having connection to the Internet is almost a necessity, but for some residents of Leduc County, they are not connected whatsoever.
Leduc County has identified six townships within their jurisdiction, which affects 669 dwellings, as underserved or not covered at all by a broadband network.
Leduc County has applied via the government’s The Final Mile Rural Community Program, which consists of a $5 million initiative to fund projects that enable high-speed Internet access to unserviced locations in rural Alberta.
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