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Bell connects Toronto to its all-fibre broadband network


TORONTO – Bell flipped the switch on its all-fibre optic network in Toronto Thursday, in what the company described as North America's largest urban fibre deployment.Bell says that it’s fibre to the premises (FTTP) service now delivers Internet access speeds of up to 1 Gbps with symmetrical upload and downloads at all FTTP Internet speed tiers.  It added that speeds will increase to at least 5 Gbps next year and ultimately to 40 Gbps and “beyond in future”.“The Bell team is proud to light up North America's largest fibre network right here in Toronto”, said BCE Inc. and Bell Canada...