The province’s Nova Scotia Internet Funding Trust is supporting Pictou County’s High Speed Internet Project. The trust says its will spend $10.6 million, that aims to bring high speed internet to more than 4,700 homes and businesses. The municipality’s fibre expansion project will cost about $53 million. The December, the…
More than 4,700 homes and businesses in Pictou County, N.S., are set to receive high-speed internet thanks to $10.6 million in funding announced by the province.
The $193 million, taken from a settlement related to offshore petroleum royalties, went into the trust and then stayed there for almost two years before the first high-speed internet projects were announced.