Northwestel unveils new phone, Internet services

FORT NELSON, B.C. – On Monday, Northwestel officially launched Cable Home Phone in Fort Nelson, a community of about 5,000 residents in northeastern British Columbia. A new long distance plan is available as part of the offering, providing unlimited, anytime long distance calling for just $9.95/month when bundled with Northwestel’s digital TV and internet services. “Cable Home Phone is a common way of delivering phone service in southern Canada but it is new to the North,” said Curtis Shaw, Northwestel vice president of marketing. “As part of this project, Northwestel invested more than $200,000 to improve the reliability of the...