The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced investments totaling $109 million to provide high-speed Internet access to more than 19,000 homes, businesses and rural communities in Ontario.
The investments were pledged during two separate announcements last week:
These announcements build on the existing Canada-Ontario Broadband Partnership, announced in July 2021 to support large-scale fibre-based projects with a combined provincial-federal investment of more than $1.2 billion. The historic investment is said to bring high-speed internet to some 280,000 rural homes in Ontario.
The new projects also advance the Government of Canada’s commitment to providing high-speed internet access to 98 per cent of Canadians by 2026 and 100 per cent by 2030.
The Ontario government has also committed to providing high-speed internet access to every community in Ontario by the end of 2025, and finalized agreements totaling more than $2.2 billion for nearly 200 broadband projects across the province by February 2023 Is.
As of now, 93.5 percent of Canadian households have access to high-speed Internet, or are on target to gain access through existing program commitments, compared to just 79 percent in 2014, the two governments said in a release.
