CRTC Broadband Fund: Project selected in June 2025
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The CRTC has selected projects to receive funding through its Broadband Fund.
The CRTC is committing over $17 million to telecommunication service providers: Minto Communications Society, County of Forty Mile No. 8, Vianet, MCSnet, and Missing Link Internet Inc., to build approximately 330 kilometres of new transport fibre infrastructure. These projects will connect 18 rural communities in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario to high-speed Internet. They will also support future projects to connect businesses and over 2,200 households.
The CRTC continues to assess applications and will make more funding announcements in the coming months.
The selected projects are as follows:
Recipient and province/territory |
Speeds to be offered for access projects, technology to be used for mobile projects |
Estimated number of communities and households to benefit |
Communities |
CRTC Broadband Fund contribution (approximate) |
Decisions |
Minto Communications Society, BC |
Fibre transport network to be built (approx. 51 km) |
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$6.7M |
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County of Forty Mile No. 8, AB |
Fibre transport network to be built (approx. 105 km) |
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$3.3M |
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Vianet Inc., ON |
Fibre transport network to be built (approx. 17 km) |
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$1.4M |
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Lemalu Holdings Ltd (operating as MCSnet), AB |
Fibre transport network to be built (approx. 33 km) |
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$859K |
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Missing Link Internet Inc., AB |
Fibre transport network to be built (approx. 124 km) |
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$5.5M |
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