Island will see high speed internet project come to fruition by 2025

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Island will see high speed internet project come to fruition by 2025

Expositor Staff

Jul 03, 2024 - 4 min read

The federal and provincial governments have announced funding of more than $97 million to ROCK Networks to connect more than 18,600 homes to high speed (fibre based) internet to more than 60 communities along with north shore of Lake Huron between Sudbury, Huron Shores and Sault Ste. Marie and on Manitoulin Island. Among those in attendance at the announcement June 24, include from left, Al MacNevin, NEMI Mayor, Nadine Mansour, vice-president of marketing and operations of Rock Networks Inc., Kalai Kalaichelvan, chairman and CEO of PomeGran, Asraft Yousef, PomGran Inc. project lead/network team led for Rock Networks, Joe Hickey, president of Pomegran and president and CEO of Rock Networks Inc., Carol Hughes, member of parliament for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Amarjot Sandhu, provincial parliamentary secretary for Ministry of Infrastructure, Michael Groh, vice-president corporate development of Rock Networks, Minister Gudie Hutchings, federal minister of rural economic development, William Elliott, general manager of Elliot Lake North Shore Corporation for Business Development, Michael Mantha, member of provincial parliament, Helen Bilodeau, municipality of Huron Shores ad hoc committee, Georges Bilodeau, H&M COFI board chairperson, Dan McCambridge H&M COFI board member, Nancy Scissons, H&M COFI board member.

Island will see high speed internet project come to fruition by 2025 — The federal and provincial governments have announced funding of more than $97 million to ROCK Networks to connect more than 18,600 homes to high speed (fibre based) internet to more than 60 communities along with north shore of Lake Huron between Sudbury, Huron Shores and Sault Ste. Marie and on Manitoulin Island. Among those in attendance at the announcement June 24, include from left, Al MacNevin, NEMI Mayor, Nadine Mansour, vice-president of marketing and operations of Rock Networks Inc., Kalai Kalaichelvan, chairman and CEO of PomeGran, Asraft Yousef, PomGran Inc. project lead/network team led for Rock Networks, Joe Hickey, president of Pomegran and president and CEO of Rock Networks Inc., Carol Hughes, member of parliament for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Amarjot Sandhu, provincial parliamentary secretary for Ministry of Infrastructure, Michael Groh, vice-president corporate development of Rock Networks, Minister Gudie Hutchings, federal minister of rural economic development, William Elliott, general manager of Elliot Lake North Shore Corporation for Business Development, Michael Mantha, member of provincial parliament, Helen Bilodeau, municipality of Huron Shores ad hoc committee, Georges Bilodeau, H&M COFI board chairperson, Dan McCambridge H&M COFI board member, Nancy Scissons, H&M COFI board member.

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