HALIFAX – Bell Aliant’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network FibreOp will be available in Halifax by the middle of the year, the telco confirmed Thursday.
The company announced a $55 million investment in the network, which includes $2 million from the Government of Nova Scotia, to extend the network to approximately 160,000 homes and businesses in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
"The response to our FibreOP service has been outstanding, and we’re pleased to now expand this network to customers in our largest and most competitive market," said president and CEO Karen Sheriff, in a statement. "Giving our customers access to the most advanced technology available not only serves their communication needs today, but ensures they are ready for whatever the future holds. We know that the demand for bandwidth will only continue to grow, and we’ll be ready."
FibreOp service will be available to customers in Halifax, Dartmouth, Eastern Passage, Cole Harbour, Sackville, Hammonds Plains, Waverley, Timberlea, Spryfield, Bedford, St. Margaret’s Bay and Lake Echo starting in mid-2011. Customers in Sydney and Sydney River currently have service, to be followed by Glace Bay, North Sydney, Sydney Mines and New Waterford later this year.
By the end of 2012, Bell Aliant says that it will have invested almost half a billion dollars to extend FTTH to over 600,000 homes and businesses in the areas it serves.
