SWIFT says CRTC Broadband Fund design leaves out far too many

Asks for Review & VaryGATINEAU – A large consortium of Ontario communities and other groups, together known as SouthWestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc. (SWIFT) has filed an application with the CRTC in the hopes the Regulator will reconsider how it qualifies rural regions to receive millions of dollars in funding to deliver broadband to its residents.In an application filed Wednesday with the Commission, SWIFT’s leadership believes the Commission’s recently outlined $750 million rural broadband fund, with its decision to rely “exclusively on error prone indicators of maximum theoretical link speeds captured in the ISED’s hexagonal mapping approach and exclude underserved...