HALIBURTON COUNTY, ON – Bell Aliant has won a local access contract to provide more than 24,000 homes and businesses improved access to high-speed Internet in portions of a 2,700 square-kilometre area in Ontario’s Haliburton and Peterborough Counties.
Awarded by the Eastern Ontario Wardens' Caucus (EOWC), the contract will see Bell Aliant lay 121 kilometres of new fibre optic cable and rely on eight new ‘points of presence’ within the region to expand broadband access. Satellite services will provide the balance of high-speed coverage in the area.
"We are making excellent progress in building a new regional network that will allow our residents and businesses to prosper," said Dave Burton, chair of Eastern Ontario Regional Network Inc., a not-for-profit organization established by the EOWC to manage all contracts awarded as part of the project. "Connecting to the Internet with higher speeds will open new doors for our communities in terms of quality of life and economic growth."
Once up and running in Fall 2012, a variety of service packages ranging from 1.5 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps will be offered. This is the sixth of several contracts that will be awarded to deliver high-speed Internet through wired and fixed wireless services as part of the $170 million Eastern Ontario regional broadband project.
