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SaskTel launches Rural Broadband Partnership Program

REGINA – SaskTel announced today it has launched a Rural Broadband Partnership Program to help bring broadband connectivity to rural Saskatchewan. The initiative “will see SaskTel partner with internet providers to bring advanced broadband connectivity to underserved farms, acreages, Indigenous communities and other hard to serve rural areas in Saskatchewan,” a press release says. “We are firmly committed to connecting the people of Saskatchewan, and even though we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in our rural networks across the province, we understand that there are areas we can’t reach alone,” said Doug Burnett, SaskTel president and CEO, in...