Investel Capital Corp., the investment fund that owns Téliphone Navigata Westel Communications Inc. (TNW), has acquired RuralCom Capital Corp., which it said is a “significant step” in TNW’s corporate transformation since the 2012 acquisition of Navigata Communications 2009 Inc. Investel said in a Thursday press release RuralCom will rebrand as TNW Wireless and will provide mobile service in northern areas of British Columbia and the Yukon “under RuralCom’s Tier-2 850 MHz mobile licenses.” Investel added that it will...
RuralCom Corp., a Vancouver-based carrier operating a mobile network in parts of northern British Columbia and the Yukon, said Tuesday it has chosen Israeli-based Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. to be the prime contractor for a network expansion along the Alaska Highway. RuralCom said in a press release that Gilat will provide a technology called CellEdge 3G for satellite-based, high-speed mobile services that are intended to cover a 1,685-kilometre stretch of highway from Wonowon, B.C., to Beaver Creek, Yukon, which is near the U.S. border with Alaska. The company said the network will serve...