QUEBEC CITY — A $38-million joint investment made as part of the Canada-Quebec Operation High Speed program will see Sogetel and Telus deliver high-speed Internet access to 2,850 households in the Granit regional county municipality (RCM) by September 2022, according to a press release today issued by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
For the deployment of high-speed Internet services in the Granit RCM, Telus will receive $5.2 million in funding to connect 450 households in five municipalities, including Audet, Frontenac, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic and Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton. With Telus’s financial contribution, the total value of the project is $12.2 million.
Sogetel will receive $21.3 million to connect 2,400 homes in 19 municipalities, for a project with a total value of $25.9 million (which includes Sogetel’s contribution). The communities covered by the Sogetel projects include Audet, Courcelles, Lac-Drolet, Lac-Mégantic, Lambton, Marston, Milan, Nantes, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Piopolis, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Saint-Ludger, Saint-Robert-Bellarmin, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien, Stornoway, Stratford and Val-Racine.
Over the next few weeks, Sogetel and Telus will take an inventory of the targeted regions to ensure no household will be left without service, says the press release.
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