CRTC Broadband Fund second call: first round of selected projects

From: Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

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Today, the CRTC approved funding for five transport projects from the CRTC Broadband Fund. While a transport project does not connect individual households to broadband infrastructure, it does provide the network that will enable Internet access services to be provided. A total of over 550 km of fibre transport networks will be built in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario, targeting 41 communities that represent more than 8,000 households, including three Indigenous communities and one official language minority community.

The five selected transport projects are:
Recipient and province/territory	Speeds to be offered	Fibre transport network to be built (approximate km)	Estimated numbers of communities, households, anchor institutions to potentially benefit^{Footnote 1}	Communities	CRTC Broadband Fund contribution (approximate)	Decision
Shaw Cablesystems G.P., British Columbia	N/A Transport Capacity Increased	150 km	7 communities Approximately 1,500 households Up to 3 anchor institutions	Attachie Bear Flat Charlie Lake Farrell Creek Moberly Lake Saulteau First Nations (Indigenous) West Moberly First Nations (Indigenous)	$13.8M	CRTC 2021-44
BH Telecom Corp., Saskatchewan	N/A Transport Capacity Increased	330 km	26 communities Approximately 5,000 households Up to 19 anchor institutions	Aberdeen Beaver Creek Bruno Camp Dundurn Carmel Casa Rio Dana Drake Dundurn Eagle Ridge Country Estates Englefeld Esk Grasswood Guernsey Jansen Leroy Lockwood Manitou Beach Meacham Muenster Peterson Prud’homme Riverside Estates St.Gregor Vonda (OLMC) Whitecap (Indigenous)	$9.5M	CRTC 2021-45
Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation, British Columbia	N/A Transport Capacity Increased	60 km	5 communities Approximately 1,100 households Up to 4 anchor institutions	Erie Hall Meadows Park Siding Ymir	$3.1M	CRTC 2021-46
Tough Country Communications Ltd., British Columbia	N/A Transport Capacity Increased	0.5 km	2 communities Approximately 190 households	Baynes Lake Kragmont	$55k	CRTC 2021-47
Rogers Communications Canada Inc., Ontario	N/A Transport Capacity Increased	1.8 km	1 community Approximately 330 households	Bruce Station	$131k	CRTC 2021-48
TOTAL		Over 550 km	41 communities More than 8,000 households Up to 26 anchor institutions		Up to $26.67M

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CRTC Broadband Fund second call: first round of selected projects

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