MOOSE JAW – SaskTel announced Friday it has completed the residential build for its fibre network in Moose Jaw, which it says makes the town of 33,000 just west of Regina, the largest fibre community in Western Canada.
Since beginning construction of the fibre network there in 2013, the provincially-owned telco has invested approximately $30 million to convert the city to SaskTel’s infiNET network, reads the press release.
The portion of the new fibre network serving businesses is 95% complete and the remainder will be complete by the end of November. “We are extremely pleased with the progress of our fibre deployment in Moose Jaw,” said Ron Styles, SaskTel president and CEO, in the release. “We feel that our infiNET network is one of the most advanced anywhere in the world today and will be in the future to come.”
InfiNET provides up to 260 Mbps speeds, which SaskTel says is the fastest available in Saskatchewan, and maxTV in HD on up to 7 set top boxes in the home.
InfiNET is being deployed through SaskTel’s fibre to the premises (FTTP) program, a $670 million dollar investment to deploy fibre optics directly to homes and upgrade the broadband network in the nine largest urban centers in the province, Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw, Weyburn, Estevan, Swift Current, Yorkton, North Battleford and Prince Albert.
“Now that the construction of our infiNET network is complete in Moose Jaw, our focus will turn to finishing the conversion of SaskTel and non-SaskTel customers to the infiNET network over the coming weeks,” added Styles in the release.
