VANCOUVER – TNW Wireless is now providing voice and data services in several northern British Columbia and Yukon communities after finalizing its acquisition of Ruralcom Corp.
Using its 850 MHz mobile spectrum licences, the company said Monday that it has restored RuralCom’s cellular sites plus has built an additional site, allowing it to provide service to most of the Whitehorse area as well as parts of the northern West Coast and Fort Nelson, BC. TNW Wireless now also provides service to two of the seven communities in the Haida Gwaii, including Port Clements, where no other wireless service previously existed.
“The rapid restoration of the former Ruralcom network was largely due to the technical expertise of TNW’s engineering and operations teams”, said TNW Networks CEO Sandeep Panesar, in the news release. “The comprehensive voice, data and cloud network infrastructure of TNW permitted us to restore the service in an extraordinarily short time frame and we expect that the TNW Wireless network will soon meet the same level of quality as the rest our network.”
TNW Wireless added that it will proceed with deploying its proprietary iPCS smartphone-over-IP technology (SoIP) throughout North America with an extended home public mobile network coverage using its Wi-Node technology, as well as through its U.S. and Canadian roaming partner network, by this spring. Node gateway technology permits subscribers to use its 850 MHz licensed spectrum service coverage remotely through an Internet Wi-Fi connection. (Click here for previous Cartt.ca coverage on the company and this technology).
“We look forward to expanding the TNW Wireless service to other underserved regions within our spectrum licensed area and throughout Canada with iPCS in full support of the Government of Canada’s declaration of connectivity as a fundamental right, a policy which we believe will benefit all Canadians”, added newly named president Lawry Trevor-Deutsch.
