Federal-provincial rural broadband expansion rolling out slowly in Alberta

Money from the $780 million federal and provincial broadband funds is helping move projects forward.

Most of Canada's big telecommunications companies aren't offering high-speed internet to rural areas of Alberta, leaving municipalities and smaller local companies to do it themselves.

Money from the $780 million federal and provincial broadband funds is helping move projects forward. But some say the rollout is still too slow for rural areas to gain access to the services and work opportunities broadband can offer.