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Project MM2020
Bringing Broadband Services to the Pakenham Area
(High-speed, high-capacity telephone, TV and Internet over optical fibre)
Brought to you by the MM2020 Pakenham Working Group
MM2020 is a community volunteer group, supported by the Municipality of Mississippi Mills, working to provide broadband access to all Mississippi Mills residents.  We have formed the MM2020 Pakenham Working Group to lead the project. Our purpose is to survey all households in Pakenham (the hamlet, Cedar Hill, and the surrounding rural catchment area) to inform all residents of the opportunity represented by the MM2020 Broadband plan, and to create a unified Pakenham buying group tasked to replace obsolete and expensive telephone, TV and internet delivery with reliable broadband service.  Current digital access needs as well as contemporary Voice-over-IP and Video-chat supporting emerging application services such as telehealth require infrastructure supporting unlimited bandwidth.
 
Community ownership of the rural broadband network is also under favorable consideration. It would allow a basic service offering to be made available, particularly to residents with school age children or those with medical needs that can be monitored or improved by basic high-speed broadband access, and those who may not be able to afford full service broadband. 
 
Our goal is to have solutions in place by the end of 2018.

To get involved or ask questions, please contact Doris Rankin at rankin@storm.ca or 613-624-5580 or Mark Joynes at mjoynes@gmail.com or 613-624-5734.

We need your help with the following:
 
1. Please complete our community survey at: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/SN9YNB8.
Hard copies are available at the Pakenham General Store, Nicholson’s Sundries or the Pakenham Branch Library and can be returned there. All information will be kept confidential and used for no other project than this. We would appreciate your contact information so that we can share updates.
 
2. Please let us know if you can serve as a Road Representative, to talk to your neighbours about the project and get their input on the survey.  We’d like a 100% return rate.  Please forward this email to your friends and neighbours in Pakenham.
To get involved or ask questions, please contact Doris Rankin at rankin@storm.ca or 613-624-5580 or Mark Joynes at mjoynes@gmail.com or 613-624-5734.
 
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