Xplore completes fibre project to connect over 33,000 rural Quebec homes and businesses

MARKHAM, ON – Rural Internet service provider Xplore announced Tuesday the successful completion of its major fibre internet project in Quebec, partly funded through the Canada-Quebec Opération Haute Vitesse (Operation High Speed) rural broadband funding program. Xplore says in a press release it invested more than $132 million to deploy 2,700 kilometres of fibre-optic infrastructure to bring high-speed internet access to more than 33,000 rural homes and businesses across the underserved regional county municipalities (MRCs) of Pontiac, Les Sources, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, La Tuque, Papineau and parts of Haut St-François. To deliver these fibre-to-the-premises internet connections, with speeds up to one gigabit, Xplore...