Videotron tells Quebec government it must act now to achieve rural broadband promises

MONTREAL — Following a news report Monday by Radio-Canada saying Quebec premier François Legault’s election promise in 2018 that all Quebecers would have access to high-speed Internet by 2022 is not on track and will not be kept, Videotron issued a press release Tuesday calling on the provincial government to take action to achieve its goal. The Radio-Canada report says approximately 330,000 Quebec households do not have access to high-speed Internet. That number was 340,000 in 2017, according to the report, which also says only about 7,000 unserved homes have been connected to high-speed Internet in the last two years,...