KENTVILLE, NS – Rogers has signed a $1.2 million agreement with the Valley Community Fibre Network (VCFN) to bring its 4G HSPA+ service to customers in the Maritimes.
Built in 2008, the VCFN is managed by Halifax-based telecommunications company Internetworking Atlantic Inc. The 175-km fibre optic network is jointly owned by the towns of Berwick, Hantsport, Windsor, and Wolfville, the Municipality of the County of Kings, the Municipality of the District of West Hants, Acadia University, and the Nova Scotia Community College, and serves users from the educational, health, research, and business sectors.
According to Monday's announcement, the VCFN agreement is part of an $80 million investment that Rogers is making to bring 4G HSPA+ service to approximately one million customers in the Annapolis Valley.
“We are pleased to work with VCFN to help us get the infrastructure we need to bring our 4G HSPA+ network to customers in the Annapolis Valley,” said Ken Marshall, Rogers’ president for Atlantic Canada, in the announcement. “It gives residents freedom and choice and makes our customers’ wireless communications better and easier.”
“Helping Rogers deliver enhanced services in the Valley is exactly what the VCFN was designed to do,” added VCFN chairman Don Clarke. “The VCFN has a mandate to support economic development in the region and this deal serves that mandate very well. It’s a good day for all of us.”
