Cable / Telecom News

Bell to dig deep to bring FTTH to Sarnia

SARNIA, ON - Bell Canada is bringing its fibre-optic cables to Sarnia and Point Edward to connect about 20,000 homes.A Sarnia Journal report says that the telecommunications giant will spend more than $50 million to provide home and commercial customers with better phone and TV service and gigabit-Internet speeds 200 times that of existing ones.  Work is set to start in the spring.Toronto, Sudbury, Cornwall and Hamilton have already been connected with fibre optics and the work is underway in Windsor.