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SaskTel confirms it will pour $310 million into network


SASKATOON – Between now and 2010, provincial Crown Corporation SaskTel will spend $310 million on what its calling its next generation access infrastructure (NGAI).This bit of info was first reported by www.cartt.ca in December. The whole idea is to bring huge bandwidth to as many Saskatchewan residents as the government-owned telco can feasibly reach. With that bandwidth will come HDTV, PVR, PPV, VOD, VOIP, and maybe even some acronyms that haven’t yet been thought up. SaskTel will spend $136.5 million of that money in 2006. Beyond investment earmarked for NGAI, the company will spend a total of $245 million on...