In April 2022, Ontario announced an additional joint investment of more than $56 million with the Government of Canada for six new projects, which will bring reliable, high-speed internet access to over 6,500 homes and businesses in Northern and Southwestern Ontario, including several First Nation communities. This $3.1 billion total investment will help bring reliable, high-speed internet to up to 280,000 more homes and businesses by the end of 2025. Ontario also announced a partnership with the Government of Canada to support large scale, fibre-based projects that will bring high-speed internet access across Ontario through a joint investment of over $1.2 billion from both levels of government. In October 2021, Ontario announced an additional investment of nearly $1.5 million to help bring high-speed internet access to four communities, impacting over 900 homes and businesses. In July 2021, Ontario announced an investment of up to $14.7 million for 13 new projects under the ( ICON) program, which will bring reliable, high-speed internet to 42 communities across the province.
This is a program that aims to improve and expand reliable high-speed internet across Ontario. In 2020, we launched the Improving Connectivity for Ontario ( ICON) program. Learn more about other high-speed internet and cellular projects and investments happening now across Ontario: Improving Connectivity for Ontario ( ICON) program High-speed internet and cellular projects and investments These changes remove barriers, duplication and delays, and help ensure every community in Ontario has access to high-speed internet by the end of 2025.
Bill 93, Getting Ontario Connected Act, 2022 was introduced on March 7, 2022 and was passed unanimously by the Legislature on April 11, 2022. This legislation will help ensure underserved and unserved communities across the province have access to reliable high-speed internet sooner. Ontario is helping to remove further barriers, duplication and delays, making it easier and faster to build high-speed internet infrastructure through the Getting Ontario Connected Act, 2022. We have also released guidelines and regulations to help provide more certainty for internet service providers, municipalities, local distribution companies ( LDCs) and others to deliver high-speed internet projects faster. This legislation will help reduce barriers that can cause delays with building broadband infrastructure in communities and will help provide access to reliable, high-speed internet sooner, while strengthening communities and the economy.
Ontario is also helping to speed up construction of high-speed internet projects in communities across the province through the Building Broadband Faster Act, 2021. Speeding up construction and removing barriers for high-speed internet projects We have now signed contracts with eight internet service providers to bring better access to homes and businesses in as many as 339 municipalities across Ontario. This new, innovative and transparent competitive process, launched in 2021 by Infrastructure Ontario, gave telecommunications and internet service providers the opportunity to bid for provincial funding. We are bringing access to high-speed internet to up to 266,000 unserved and underserved homes and businesses across the province through a new competitive process. Bringing high-speed internet access to every community in Ontario New competitive process
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