>PROGRESS MADE

We are all members of a community that has waited patiently for commercial operators and the government to deliver broadband but have been disappointed. In early 2018 NOW Lunenburg County has held its first public meeting on connectivity.  That meeting led to the creation of a small team of highly skilled, talented, local citizens with the expertise and experience to look for a solution. We now believe we can solve this problem ourselves.
Our group of volunteers comes from a broad cross-section of community members with technical, project management and community engagement skills and experience.
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NOW Lunenburg County and our team believe we can solve the challenge of affordable rural broadband in Lunenburg County through the establishment of a community-owned, rural, fibre-optic broadband co-operative. ​

>NEXT STEPS

Throughout 2019 NOW Lunenburg County will be working on establishing a community-owned, rural, fibre-optic broadband co-operative. That work will include: registering a name; making an application to create the co-op; and applying for a grant to cover the costs of creating a business case, technical study, educating, informing and engaging the community. 
Our goal is to establish service for an identified pilot project in 2020.

>Milestones

• NOWLC Net Cooperative Limited formed March 2019 
• Meeting with the Honourable Bernadette Jordan Minister of Rural Economic Development April 16, 2019
• NOWLC - NET officially became a Reseller of High Speed Retail Internet Service May 2019
• Pilot location and street identified June 2019
• CRTC approves NOWLC-NET's application to be an Internet Service provider (ISP)