SWIFT announces $2.6 million in new funding while earlier project breaks ground

LONDON – Rural broadband funding organization SWIFT today announced a new round of funding and that one project approved earlier this year has begun construction. Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology awarded $2.6 million to Brooke Telecom Co-operative of Inwood, Ont. to implement a fibre-to-the-home project to connect approximately 530 households and businesses in rural areas between Petrolia, Wyoming, Watford and Alvinston, all communities just east of Sarnia. “Today, as we award funding for a fifth project in Lambton County we can now proudly say that collectively more than 4400 homes and businesses, approximately 50% of the underserved premises in the County...