Canada, QC provide HEC Montréal with $5M for telecommunications network

HEC Montréal has announced that it will be receiving nearly $5M from the federal and provincial governments in order to upgrade its telecommunications network. HEC will be installing a new high-capacity network, including new fibre optics and modernized components. As a result, the new network system will be able to support teachers and researchers who need to transmit large amounts of data quickly. $1.9M comes from the federal government’s Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund, while the remainder is being provided by the Quebec government. HEC