CALGARY – Axia said today it is increasing the speed of Internet service by a factor of ten – giving rural Albertans Gigabit Internet service in communities such as Stirling, Vulcan, Hanna, Nobleford, Fort Macleod, and many more.
This fall, Axia customers with 50 and 100 Mbps service are being cranked up to a level of service that most Canadians in metropolitan centres don’t have – for no extra charge, touts the release.
The follows the company’s 2016 announcement of $100 million in building fibre to the premise in towns throughout Alberta. “This also marks the first time in any jurisdiction that residential Gbps services are available in rural markets with 100% private capital investment. This is the new ‘rural Alberta advantage’,” says the release
“This upgrade is a quantum leap forward in Axia’s pursuit to establish Alberta as the most advanced rural digital economy in the world,” said Robert Price, vice-president Axia Services, in the release. “When Axia built the Alberta SuperNet we were driven by a passion to offer competition and choice to rural Alberta with our fibre as infrastructure model. We are excited that our Gbps services will continue the transformational performance experience for our customers and are proud to be the envy of any rural jurisdiction in Canada and abroad.”
Existing 50 and 100 Mbps customers in Axia’s fibred towns will receive news of their latest routers and upgrades as the roll-out moves through each community this fall. Current 25 Mbps customers will be invited to take the leap to 500 Mbps or 1 Gbps.
