Feds invest over $2.3M of UBF funding in high-speed internet and mobile projects in NWT

The Canadian government announced Friday it is providing more than $2.3 million from its $3.225-billion Universal Broadband Fund to help support projects that will bring high-speed internet access and mobile connectivity to remote areas of the Northwest Territories. More than $1.9 million in federal funding will go toward a Northwestel project that will bring high-speed internet connectivity to 152 Indigenous households in the community of Whatì. In addition, $480,000 of UBF funding is being invested in a project by SSi Micro Ltd. to provide cellular access to a repositionable communications shelter, located in traditional hunting and fishing grounds near Fort Providence, that...