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Bell Aliant’s FibreOp hits 1M premises target


HALIFAX – Bell Aliant has achieved its goal of making its fibre-to-the-home network FibreOp available to one million homes and businesses by the end of 2014, reaching this milestone in Oromocto, NB on Friday.After launching the network in New Brunswick in 2009, FibreOp now reaches more than 90 communities - large and small - throughout Atlantic Canada as well as some parts of Ontario and Quebec.Bell Aliant also announced that FibreOp customers in Atlantic Canada will soon be upgraded to FibreOp 3.0, which includes an Internet speed boost that raises the top speed tier from 250/30 Mbps to 400/350 Mbps; a...