{"id":117265,"date":"2022-09-21T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=117265"},"modified":"2022-09-21T15:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:48:35","slug":"six-nations-hopes-to-bring-fibre-internet-to-community-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/six-nations-hopes-to-bring-fibre-internet-to-community-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations hopes to bring fibre internet to community this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Nations Cable presented an update to Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) on its current project to bring fibre internet to Six Nations to provide better service to the community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First Nations Cable representative Jeff Thomas said the project is well underway with two of the three phases of the project complete. T<\/span>he project has completed its planning mapping and designing stage and \"back bone\" stage which is a fibre connection line from Middleport to first nations cable\u2019s office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas was hopeful to have the system ready by Sept. 5, but he said that the project has been pushed back a month due to a hardware issue for Hydro One. The company hopes to be up and running on Oct. 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas called this project a \u201cphenomenal feat\u201d because it will establish a 100 gigabit ethernet connection for community use. He said many municipalities \"would love to have this (internet)\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The final phase of this project, called \u201cThe Last Mile,\u201d will be the actual installation of the fibre lines from its connection link that will feed the service to customers. First Nations Cable is in the process of finalizing a contract with the Government of Ontario that will fund this project, which Thomas said will be worth $11 million.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas hopes with the support of SNEC, this project will begin its final phase and hopes that there are no further delays once construction begins.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m concerned about is we\u2019ll get the project started and then we\u2019re waiting for money,\" Thomas said \"And with the contractors, I really don\u2019t want to have to stop them, but I really can\u2019t ask them to go on without being able to pay them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas asked for SNEC to show support for the project and that they be involved in talks with the government over funding if necessary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Six Nations Chief Mark Hill voiced his concern over funds being held by the government and council\u2019s overall support for the project.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just wondering if maybe our office can assist to have a meeting with all key stakeholders, First Nations Cable, The Chief\u2019s Office, and representatives from the government\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur job really is to support you, to support this community in getting what we need, so anything we can do (to help),\u201d he continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas said once the final phase begins he hopes the entire Six Nations Reserve will have access to fibre internet within three years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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First Nations Cable presented an update to Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) on its current project to bring fibre internet to Six Nations to provide better service to the community.\u00a0 First Nations Cable representative Jeff Thomas said the project is well underway with two of the three phases of the project complete. The project has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":117270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,16830],"tags":[18982,18981,16751,7743,17825],"radio":[13052],"origine":[267,13048,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117265"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117310,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117265\/revisions\/117310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117265"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=117265"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=117265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}