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City of London contributes $690K to join SWIFT

WYOMING and LONDON, ON - The City of London has joined the Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) initiative as a capital contributing member.London committed $690,000 to the collective broadband initiative that is working to improve ultra-high-speed fibre-optic Internet access for more than 3.5 million people, or 25% of Ontario’s population, across approximately 350 communities in southwestern Ontario, Caledon, and the Niagara Region.“We are pleased to welcome London as a capital partner in SWIFT and look forward to working together to address southwestern Ontario’s critical connectivity challenges,” said SWIFT board chair Gerry Marshall, in the news release.  “It is absolutely critical...