📋 Tender Overview
Government is sharing the first progress report from the Broadband Connectivity Strategy 2021 2025.The report provides an update on activities from October 2021 through December 2022 while outlining where progress has been made and where more work needs to be done. Government had originally committed to ensuring high-speed Internet would be accessible to 95 per cent of civic addresses by June 2023. Government has surpassed this goal reaching 96 per cent by the end of 2022. The overall goal is to reach 100 per cent of civic addresses by 2025.The following is a list of programs and initiatives by Government to get Islanders connectedIn 2019 the PEI Broadband Fund was launched to offer 50 per cent subsidy to eligible projects for communities businesses and Internet service providersIn 2020 agreements were signed with Bell and Xplore to enhance and expand high-speed service across the provinceIn 2020 the business stream of the PEI Broadband Fund was expanded to support remote workersIn 2020 a stream for residents was launched through the PEI Broadband Fund and In 2020 a stream for Internet service providers was piloted through the PEI Broadband Fund to offer higher subsidy rates. Since 2019 approximately 29000 underserved civic addresses now have access to high-speed coverage.
