The Ford government will fail to meet its target of connecting unserved or underserved communities to reliable broadband by the end of 2025, Global News has learned, at least partly because of the premier’s decision to tear up a contract for Starlink internet.

In 2021, the province launched a plan to connect every household in Ontario to high-speed broadband, promising even the most remote communities would have access by the end of this year.

Now, though, with October ending, officials are accepting the target is no longer possible, indicating contract chaos from the Canada-U.S. trade war and construction delays are bogging down the plan.

The updated goal to connect everyone in the province to broadband is moving forward three years to 2028.

One of the reasons the goal needs to b

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