Cable / Telecom News

TNW Wireless launches SoIP in BC and Yukon; national launch planned for April


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...