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CRTC Broadband Fund supporting 4 new projects in Alberta and Nova Scotia

OTTAWA and GATINEAU – The CRTC announced yesterday four projects in Alberta and Nova Scotia will receive up to $8.8 million in funding from its Broadband Fund. “The projects will target approximately 680 households in five communities, including four Indigenous communities,” a CRTC press release says. ATG Arrow Technology Group Limited Partnership was allocated up to $7.9 million to build or upgrade local fixed access infrastructure in three Indigenous communities in Alberta, according to the CRTC’s decision on the matter. Of that funding, the Commission approved up to $3.8 million for the community of Louis Bull 138B (approximately 165 households), up...