Feds, Ontario award $97M in funding to connect over 18,600 northern homes to high-speed internet

The federal and Ontario governments on Monday announced more than $97 million in combined funding for ROCK Networks, a PomeGran Inc. subsidiary, to build new fibre infrastructure that will bring high-speed internet access to more than 60 communities along the north shore of Lake Huron between Sudbury, Huron Shores and Sault Ste. Marie, and on Manitoulin Island. The high-speed internet project will serve 18,663 households, including 2,545 indigenous homes, according to a government backgrounder, which lists the 62 communities that will benefit. The funding, which comes from the federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF) and Ontario’s Improving Connectivity for Ontario (ICON) program, is...