VANCOUVER — Telus announced today it is bringing wireless connectivity to a 20-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 between Prince Rupert and Terrace, B.C., as the result of investing more than $1 million in building a new cell site.
Construction on the new cell tower was completed in December and connects users to Telus’s 4G LTE network. The new cell site is located approximately 60 kilometres west of Terrace, and brings coverage to an area that was previously one of the longest stretches of Highway 16 without any cellular service, the news release says. Telus now provides coverage to more than 70% of the highway between Prince Rupert and Prince George, the company says.
Telus has invested more than $350 million across Northern B.C. since 2013, tying Prince George, Kitimat, Terrace, Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Hudson’s Hope, Williams Lake, Quesnel, and the Witset First Nation to the Telus PureFibre network, and has brought more Northern B.C. communities high-speed Internet and Optik TV.
The company also serves 178 of B.C.’s 203 Indigenous communities with wireless and broadband wireline technologies, and has collaborated with 46 Indigenous governments to bring Telus PureFibre to their communities, including 12 in collaboration with the All Nations Trust Company’s Pathways to Technology program, which receives funding from the provincial and federal governments, the release says.
