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Municipalities requesting $4B for rural broadband, mobile access target

Briefs | 10/25/2018 5:56 pm EDT

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is asking the federal government to plow $4 billion over 10 years into filling a rural broadband gap they say leaves about two million Canadians without reliable fixed or mobile internet.

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