Over $929,000 in UBF funding to help connect Newfoundland and Labrador

NORTH WEST RIVER and THE SHESHATSHIU INNU FIRST NATION, NL – Over $929,000 from the Universal Broadband Fund’s (UBF) rapid response stream will help connect 582 households in North West River and the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation in Newfoundland and Labrador, the federal government announced today. The project’s UBF funding, which was announced by Gudie Hutchings, the minister of Rural Economic Development and Yvonne Jones, MP for Labrador, represents 80% of the total project cost, according to a spokesperson for the Office of the Minister of Rural Economic Development. The project is being completed by Big Land Networks. (Cartt.ca reached out to Big Land...