HAMILTON – Bell Canada announced today it will invest $400 million to expand broadband Internet access in urban and rural areas of Hamilton – the largest digital infrastructure investment in the City’s history.
As part of the Mayor’s Intelligent Community Task Force (MICTF) and the Steel City’s ongoing efforts to improve community-wide digital infrastructure, over the next five years, Bell and a Bell-funded team of City of Hamilton staff will bring direct fibre network connections to more than 200,000 homes and business locations throughout the City with zero cost to taxpayers.
The network will provide consumers with access to data speeds up to 1.5 Gbps.
Over the past few years, the city and Chamber of Commerce identified gaps in connectivity in Hamilton, a city of 580,000 which features wide swaths of rural regions within its borders
Broadband speeds are to be enhanced for all of urban Hamilton, business parks and major commercial areas, and rural areas in the community.
“In addition to premium network support for the City’s business community, the Bell project includes the expansion of high-speed Bell Wireless Home Internet service to 8,000 homes in rural Hamilton,” says the release.
Bell will work in close co-operation with the city and local contractors, including Aecon, Telecon and Sentrex, and the majority of the network build will consist of new fibre installed underground, with additional fibre located on Bell, Hydro One and Alectra Utilities poles.
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