
QUEBEC CITY — As a result of a $62.8-million joint investment made as part of the Canada-Quebec Operation High Speed program, 15,350 households in the Laurentides region will have access to Cogeco high-speed Internet services by September 2022.
According to the announcement made today, Cogeco will receive $48.9 million in funding through the program to deploy high-speed Internet services to the targeted municipalities in La Rivière-du-Nord regional county municipality (RCM), Les Laurentides RCM, and Les Pays-d’en-Haut RCM (the full list of municipalities is below). That suggests Cogeco is contributing the other $13.9 million to the projects.
Cogeco will take an inventory of the target areas over the next few weeks to ensure no household will be left without service, says the press release.
The targeted municipalities include:
- La Rivière-du-Nord RCM: Prévost, Saint-Hippolyte
- Les Laurentides RCM: Amherst, Arundel, Barkmere, Brébeuf, Huberdeau, Ivry-sur-le-Lac, La Conception, Labelle, Lac-Supérieur, Lac-Tremblant-Nord, Lantier, Montcalm, Mont-Tremblant, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides, Saint-Faustin–Lac-Carré, Val-David, Val-des-Lacs, Val-Morin
- Les Pays-d’en-Haut RCM: Estérel, Lac-des-Seize-Îles, Morin-Heights, Piedmont, Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard, Sainte-Adèle, Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs, Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, Saint-Sauveur, Wentworth-Nord
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