OTTAWA – The federal government today announced an investment of $2.27 million to help bring high-speed Internet to rural residents in the communities of Pottageville, Nobleton and Lloydtown in King Township, which is just north of Toronto.
With an additional investment of nearly $1.7 million from independent ISP Vianet, this project will connect 485 underserved households to high-speed Internet.
The funding is from the rapid response streak of the Universal Broadband Fund, which means it has to be completed by the end of 2021.
“In 2017, Vianet connected the first rural home to our FTTH network in King Township, and we have been making incremental investments to service additional rural homes each year since then. Today’s announcement will accelerate that expansion, servicing more homes that are in desperate need of better, more reliable Internet,” said Brian McCullagh, Vianet’s director of business development, in the press release.
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