Investel Capital Corp.’s TNW Networks Corp. (TNW) will soon start deploying a Wi-Fi-based mobile technology as part of a nationally available wireless service that the company is claiming will be disruptive to the Canadian market, despite regulatory uncertainly caused by a CRTC complaint regarding a similar service. Last week, the company announced that it had acquired — subject to regulatory approval — RuralCom Capital Corp. and with it, its Tier-2 850 MHz mobile licences. Those licences will be used as part of TNW’s new service. According to TNW, its Internet Personal...
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...