QUÉBEC CITY — For a rural broadband project costing $127.72 million, Videotron will receive a combined amount of $121 million in funding from the Canadian and Quebec governments, as part of the Canada-Quebec Operation High Speed initiative, to deploy high-speed Internet services to 13,300 households in the Abitibi-Témiscaminigue and Nord-du-Québec regions by September 2022.
The announcement was made today by the federal and provincial governments who have committed to providing $826.3 million in combined funding through the Operation High Speed program, first announced in March, to ensure connectivity for 150,000 underserved homes in rural Quebec by September of next year. The last few months have seen several agreement announcements with six of the province’s biggest telecom companies, including Videotron, Cogeco, Bell, Xplornet, Sogetel and Telus, as well as several smaller providers.
For more on today’s announcement, including the list of 69 communities to be covered by the Videotron project, please click here.
