Archive - Mar 30, 2010

Industry Canada determining funding for broadband telecom infrastructure in First Nations

From Industry Canada's Broadband Canada: Connecting Rural Canadians website

March 29, 2010 - The Broadband Canada program has now completed its assessment of applications and has begun contacting applicants. 226 of the 570 applications received have been deemed eligible for funding. However, the total funding requested from those applications is over $500 million, and therefore not all eligible applications can be funded.