REGINA – SaskTel said Thursday that it will invest approximately $4.6 million to improve the data capacity of 37 more wireless towers in rural Saskatchewan.
The upgrades are expected to be done by the end of March 2019 and as part of the upgrades, SaskTel will be adding more LTE network carriers to the towers which will increase their LTE data capacity by up to 100%.
“Year over year, the demand for wireless service continues to grow at an astonishing pace,” said SaskTel acting president and CEO Doug Burnett, in the news release. “Through strategic investments, we are able to stay ahead of the ever-growing demands on our network while continuing to plan for future enhancements.”
These latest wireless upgrades are part of SaskTel’s commitment to invest approximately $301 million of capital in Saskatchewan in 2018/19 and $1.4 billion over the next five years.
