CRTC approves reallocation of funding for Northwestel to rebuild wildfire-damaged fibre network in NWT

The CRTC on Monday approved on an exceptional basis a request from Northwestel Inc. to use a portion of the Broadband Fund funding previously allocated to its fibre project in Northwest Territories to rebuild a fibre-to-the-home network in the NWT community of Enterprise, which was damaged by wildfires in August 2023. The commission has also approved a modified completion date for the project, giving Northwestel an additional year to complete it, since the rebuild is anticipated to begin in 2025. The Enterprise network is part of a larger project approved for Broadband Fund money in August 2020, which involved the upgrading of a transport...