VANCOUVER — Telus announced Monday it has invested $2 million to build two new cell sites in Gold River and Tahsis, bringing wireless voice and Internet services to these west coast Vancouver Island communities for the first time.
In addition to this investment, Telus is collaborating with the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation to upgrade wireless services in the community of Tsaxana later this year, says the news release.
Last week Telus announced it had achieved the milestone of bringing wireless connectivity to every community in British Columbia with a population of 1,000 people or more.
Telus said it is committed to continuing to connect communities with smaller populations, including the communities of Port Clements, Hazelton and New Denver that are all served by Telus wireless sites. According to the news release, more than 99% of British Columbians have access to Telus’s 4G LTE network.
Telus serves 178 of B.C.’s 203 Indigenous communities with wireless and broadband wireline technologies, and has collaborated with 46 Indigenous governments to bring Telus PureFibre to their communities, including 12 in collaboration with the All Nations Trust Company’s Pathways to Technology program, the release says.
Telus has committed to invest $4.7 billion throughout British Columbia between 2017 and 2020, at no cost to taxpayers. For more information about Telus’s commitment to serving First Nations communities, please click here.
