FREDERICTON – Rogers Communications and the City of Fredericton this week announced 5G is now available in the provincial capital and that Rogers has also partnered with Ignite Fredericton on providing 5G to its Innovation Lab at the Cyber Centre in Knowledge Park, which will be run by CyberNB.
“As we expand into Fredericton, over time our 5G technology will transform the way we live, work, and do business in New Brunswick,” said Matt MacLellan, Rogers Atlantic region president. “We are proud to work with the City of Fredericton to bring 5G to the city. Strong digital infrastructure and this next generation technology are critical to fuel productivity and innovation as we power out of the pandemic.”
“We are thrilled to jointly announce Fredericton’s digital evolution as ‘Atlantic Canada’s First 5G City’,” said Mike O’Brien, the city’s mayor, in the Rogers press release. “As part of a multi-year telecommunications partnership, the city has been working with Rogers since November 2019 to bring 5G to Fredericton as part of their national roll-out. There will be tremendous impact, enabling our entrepreneurs, students and researchers, to develop robust edge applications, solutions and applied research.”
Over time, 5G will introduce new capabilities that are significantly more advanced than previous generations of wireless technology. With ultra-low latency, the lag between sending a request and the network responding will theoretically drop to one millisecond, 400 times faster than the blink of an eye, reminds the press release.
