CRTC commits over $17M in Broadband Fund money to improve mobile service along eight major roads

The CRTC is committing more than $17 million through its Broadband Fund to Bell Canada, TBayTel, Telus Communications and Sogetel Mobilité to build new cell towers and improve mobile wireless service along eight major roads, the telecom regulator announced Wednesday. The four telecommunications service providers submitted their funding applications in response to the CRTC’s third call for applications to the Broadband Fund. Bell has been approved for up to $1.05 million in funding to build a cell tower to serve approximately 15 kilometres of Route 330 near the community of Gander Bay South in Newfoundland and Labrador. TBayTel has been approved for up to $5.16...