Vecima gets $4.6 million funding boost for wireless network expansion in rural Saskatchewan

VICTORIA, B.C. — Vecima Networks of Victoria, B.C., has been awarded $4.6 million in funding from Industry Canada to expand its YourLink network infrastructure in rural Saskatchewan. YourLink currently provides high-speed wireless Internet services to approximately 10,000 residential and business subscribers across the province.“With this joint funding, we will undertake a significant upgrade and expansion of our Saskatchewan network infrastructure over the next two years,” Vecima’s President and CEO, Sumit Kumar, said in a press release. “We are happy after a rigorous evaluation process that our proposal was selected. Our program will bring the availability of high-speed Internet to over 40,000...