Bell Canada and Bell Aliant’s plan to provide 112 Ontario and Quebec rural communities with broadband Internet is expected to cost $454 million, say the companies’ roll-out plan, submitted to the CRTC Feb. 26. 

“That’s a breathtaking subsidy,” Mark Goldberg, a telecommunications analyst with Mark H. Goldberg and Associates, told The Wire Report. 

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