SaskTel leads partnership to brings cellular service to northern communities

REGINA – SaskTel and Huawei are part of partnership that will bring cellular service for the first time to the communities of Wollaston Lake, Stony Rapids, Fond du Lac First Nation and Black Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan. This partnership is based on SaskTel’s Community Participation Model, which encourages communities to raise funds to cover the shortfall when it is not economically feasible for the provincial telco to finance a new cellular site alone. SaskTel’s economic analysis for this $5.8 million project covering these four communities, which took into account the overall cost of the tower sites, operating expenses over...