MONTREAL – Bell is launching what it calls Canada’s fastest Internet service, announcing Monday that Gigabit Fibe is now available to approximately 1.3 million homes in Ontario and Quebec.
Bell Fibe Internet customers can upgrade to Gigabit Fibe for $10 per month in a bundle. The service initially offers top speeds of up to 940 Mbps, which will increase to 1000 Mpbs (1 Gigabit) or faster in 2016, according to the press release.
In Ontario, Gigabit Fibe is available in select areas of Brampton, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, Milton, Ottawa, Peterborough and parts of Toronto, including approximately 50,000 homes in the neighbourhoods of Regent Park, the Distillery District, Harbourfront and Willowdale. BCE CEO George Cope said in June that Gigabit Fibe Internet and television service will be extended to all of Toronto within three years thanks to a $1.14 billion investment in fibre.
In Quebec, the Gigabit Fibe footprint covers Québec City, which Bell described as its “first full fibre centre”, as well as locations in Beloeil, Blainville, Chambly, Châteauguay, Gatineau, Joliette, La Prairie, Laval, Lévis, Magog, Repentigny, Saint-Constant, Saint-Eustache, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Jérôme, Saint-Luc, Sherbrooke, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Sorel-Tracy, Terrebonne, Vaudreuil-Dorion and more than 85,000 homes in Montreal.
Some 650,000 locations in Atlantic Canada are slated to receive Gigabit Fibe speeds by the end of September, and the total coverage footprint is predicted to reach 2.2 million homes by the end of 2015.
"The Bell team is dedicated to continued leadership in broadband networks and next-generation communications services, so we are very proud to introduce today the absolute fastest Internet speeds available to Canadian consumers," said Bell Residential Services’ president Rizwan Jamal, in the release. "Gigabit Fibe is tomorrow's technology, offering consumers the Internet access speeds that will enable them to take full advantage of online advancements into the future."
