November 7, 2014 – Ottawa, Ontario – Infrastructure Canada
Residents across the Thousand Islands are celebrating the news today that improved access to high-speed Internet is now available in their area. The reach and speed of existing wireless networks have been expanded to provide download speeds of up to 10 Mbps through a new fibre optic cable network and new or improved access points made possible through the Eastern Ontario Regional Network project. In areas that cannot connect with the wireless service, a satellite solution provides connectivity to speeds of up to 10 Mbps.
Thanks to a joint investment from the governments of Canada and Ontario, the Eastern Ontario Wardens' Caucus Inc., and private sector partners, 33,000 homes and businesses now have access to the service, enabling the use of the latest web-based applications, and information and entertainment resources. The Thousand Island region is one of the many areas across Eastern Ontario to receive improved high-speed Internet access through Ontario's largest rural broadband network project.
The entire project is helping to improve high-speed access throughout the nearly 50,000 square kilometres of Eastern Ontario, an area encompassing the counties of Hastings, Peterborough, Renfrew, Northumberland, Haliburton, Frontenac, Lanark, Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington, the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, as well as the City of Kawartha Lakes.
Vincent Rabault
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and
Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
613-943-1838
Bryan Bossin
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs of Ontario
416-326-3069
Lisa Severson
Eastern Ontario Regional Network
613-213-8520
Morten Paulsen
Xplornet Communications
403-453-0062
Infrastructure Canada
613-960-9251
Toll-free 1-877-250-7154
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