The biggest challenge to get to the 2026 figures that we've been talking about, the 98% plus, is, frankly, a matter of time. Many of these are large infrastructure projects. They take two or three years to build, and a lot of them are in train now. We've seen significant progress from 2018 to the present, but we need to run the line out another couple of years to 2026 before some of these very large projects that have been announced in concert with the provinces actually....
You won't see the percentage jump up until the light gets turned on in the house. The building is happening now, but the fibre optic cable has to be laid, the connection to the pole, from the pole to the house. It's only when the house gets connected and the service is available that we can actually move the needle on the percentage. That work is going on now, but it will take until 2026 for a lot of that cash that's going into the ground now, the building that's taking place, to produce the result of a house that's actually connected.
The biggest challenge at the moment is rolling out major infrastructure projects all across the country. As I mentioned, we have a regular table. We sit and track the milestones, which is one of the reasons I say with a fair degree of confidence that we're very confident that we're going to hit the kinds of percentages we've laid out. We wouldn't be testifying to that if we weren't, and the reason is that we work with these companies. We can see the progress in their infrastructure projects.
The pandemic has definitely created supply chain bottlenecks and those sorts of things, but in a sense, it's just time. It's like building a bridge or something. It's just going to take a bit of time to build it.