City of Vaughan

Creating access to broadband services is an important Smart City infrastructure that helps prepare our city for future technology by providing the foundation of connectivity. YorkNet is a York Region-owned corporation that plans, builds, operates, manages and maintains a high-speed, dark-fibre network across the Region. It is focused on maintaining and expanding the Region’s telecom network to support economic development and innovation in York Region, and to provide cost-effective and open-access fibre connectivity for the Region.

On Thursday, March 2, 2023, the Governments of Canada and Ontario announced more than $48 million in federal and provincial funding to bring high-speed Internet access to underserved areas of York Region.  This funding is part of a continued commitment by all levels of government to bring reliable, high-speed Internet to homes and businesses across Canada, Ontario, York Region and Vaughan. The investment will be allocated to a broadband infrastructure project through the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF) that will see high-speed Internet brought to more than 3,800 underserved homes across the Region.

Full article: https://www.york.ca/newsroom/news/york-region-welcomes-historic-federal-and-provincial-investment