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Antoine-Labelle communities in Quebec to benefit from high-speed Internet


RIVIÈRE-ROUGE, QC – The 17 municipalities in Quebec’s Antoine-Labelle will soon have a new fibre optic network spanning 1,900 kilometres that will bring high-speed Internet to over 16,000 households and businesses.The federal government will invest over $12 million in this project under the Rural and Northern Communities stream of the Investing in Canada infrastructure plan.  The Quebec government will invest more than $13 million and the Regional County Municipality of Antoine-Labelle will contribute almost $23.5 million.Through this project, almost 98% of households and businesses that do not currently have access to Internet at a speed of at least 5 Mbps will have access to download...