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Fibre deployment more challenging in Indigenous and remote communities, conference hears

| 08/21/2025 6:01 pm EDT

Fibre deployment more challenging in Indigenous and remote communities, conference hears

TORONTO–Any fibre rollout has its challenges but those are magnified when trying to extend service to Indigenous and remote communities. That was one of the key points at...

Broadband Indigenous Internet

Northwestel announces completion of backup fibre loop; acquisition to close in 2025

| 11/26/2024 6:03 pm EST

Northwestel redirecting Broadband Fund cash to rebuild network after fire damage in N.W.T. 

BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel announced that it has completed the Canada North Fibre Loop (CNFL), a 3,857-kilometre fibre network in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. ...

Bell fibre Rural broadband

Northwestel on track to complete modernization plan: CRTC

telecom | 07/09/2018 6:08 pm EDT

CRTC denies Northwestel Wholesale Connect application

BCE Inc.’s Northwestel is on its way to successfully completing its...

Bell Internet Rural broadband

Connect to Innovate funding announced for Nunavut

telecom | 09/14/2017 4:36 pm EDT

Connect to Innovate funding announced for Nunavut

Twenty-five Nunavut communities are the targeted beneficiaries of the latest round of Connect to Innovate...

Bell Satellite

Has the time come to make broadband a basic service?

telecom | 06/18/2014 7:27 pm EDT

As the CRTC is set to reconsider what constitutes a basic telecommunications service, some voices are saying that it’s about time to include broadband Internet in that definition. Under current rules, basic service includes...

CRTC Internet

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