Canada and B.C. to invest $830M to connect province’s remaining households (updated)

MISSION, B.C. — In what they call “a historic plan”, the governments of Canada and British Columbia today announced they will jointly invest up to $830 million to connect all remaining rural and remote households in the province to high-speed Internet. As part of their agreement, the two levels of government will each contribute up to $415 million to the wide-reaching project that will provide coverage to approximately 115,000 households in B.C. that are still underserved, according to a press release. “British Columbia’s funding will build on investments made to date and will include the $289 million announced in B.C.’s...