WABUSH and LABRADOR CITY, NL — The governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador announced today $231,756 in combined funding for Community Recreation Rebroadcasting Service Association (CRRS) to bring high-speed Internet access to 664 homes in Wabush and Labrador City, located in western Labrador near the Quebec border.
The project is expected to be completed in May 2023, according to a press release.
“As we are a community-owned not-for-profit, these types of funds are especially important and beneficial to us and our communities,” said Robert Burton, operations manager at Labrador City-based CRRS, in the release. “It has always been our mandate to provide the best possible service experience to our members, and this funding from the Universal Broadband Fund allows us to ensure that all of our members will have access to our highest level of service.”
The funding is part of an existing agreement between the governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador, announced in February 2022. Under that agreement, the two levels of government have committed $136 million in joint funding to connect all remaining rural and remote households in Newfoundland and Labrador to high-speed Internet. Up to $116 million is coming from the federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund and up to $20 million is coming from the provincial government.
The announcement today “builds on the Government of Canada’s progress toward making sure that 98% of Canadians have access to high-speed Internet by 2026, and 100% by 2030,” the press release says.
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