Northwestel is now new telephone service provider in Atlin

WHITEHORSE, Yukon – Bell’s Northwestel is now the telephone service provider in Atlin, British Columbia after agreeing to take over the transport link from the incumbent Telus. Telus told the CRTC during the April hearing on the far north that it had an agreement in principle that would see the transfer of the incumbency to Northwestel. The move made sense because Telus did not have its own transport route for that community, instead leasing a stretch of 1,300 kilometres from Northwestel. “Atlin is a part of the north, it just makes sense for them to be a part of the...