MONTREAL – Over a dozen more rural communities in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario can now access high speed wireless service through the Inukshuk Wireless network.
The company announced today that Balzac, Coalhurst, Sterling, Lundbreck and Peigan 147 in Alberta, plus BC’s Oyama, Duck Lake 7, Dewdney, Deroche, Harrison Mills, and the three Ontario communities of Mnjikaning First Nation 32, Sarnia 45 and Six Nations 40, have been added to their national broadband high-speed wireless network which reaches approximately 30 million Canadians.
"The commitment by the Learning Plan Fund and its Advisory Committee members to bring high speed broadband wireless access to rural Canada enables us to help bridge the digital divide most significant in rural communities. We are very pleased to be able to make a difference," said Don Falle, general manager of Inukshuk Wireless, in the company’s release. "This deployment furthers the continuing success of the Learning Plan, as it enables more learners living in unserved or underserved communities of this country of ours to have access to broadband, enabling them to tap into the endless possibilities of on-line learning".
Inukshuk’s Learning Plan Fund was created to support content and connectivity initiatives in their ten licensed areas of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Eastern Ontario and Outaouais, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon. Inukshuk Wireless’ network footprint currently covers 45 cities and more than 120 communities.
Inukshuk Wireless is a partnership between Bell Canada and Rogers Communications created to build and manage a Canada-wide wireless broadband network licensed by Industry Canada. The network is designed to connect customers to the Internet and provide secure wireless data transmission using existing cellular towers belonging to both Bell and Rogers.
