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N.S. chose pricier bids for rural web
Last Updated: Friday, April 9, 2010
7:33 AM ET Comments40Recommend21CBC News
Two companies hired to bring high-speed internet service to rural Nova Scotia did not submit the lowest bids, CBC News has learned.
Rural Nova Scotians were originally promised access to high-speed internet by the end of 2009. (CBC)Aliant lost the contract despite bidding millions of dollars less than EastLink and Seaside Communications, according to documents obtained under the province’s Freedom of Information law.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04/09/ns-aliant-internet.html?ref=rss#ixzz0ke0WqeBc
