SaskTel announced Wednesday it will soon begin connecting homes to its infiNET service in Esterhazy, Macklin, Unity and Wynyard as part of the Crown corporation’s $200-million Rural Fibre Initiative.
SaskTel said it anticipates select areas in all four communities will be fibre-ready by late March.
“Once we’ve completed this latest expansion, our fibre network, which is already by far the largest network of its kind in Saskatchewan, will reach households in more than 50 communities across the province,” Charlene Gavel, SaskTel’s president and CEO, said in a press release.
Powered by SaskTel’s fibre broadband network, infiNET service delivers speeds reaching close to 1 Gbps, according to the release.
The Rural Fibre Initiative is a multi-phase program that will see SaskTel bring its infiNET service to more than 130 rural communities. Once the announced phases of the initiative are complete, SaskTel’s infiNET network will reach approximately 80 per cent of all Saskatchewan households, the release says.
The continued expansion of its infiNET and 5G networks is a result of SaskTel’s commitment to invest more than $1.6 billion of capital across Saskatchewan over the next five years.
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