The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced on Friday its plan to improve cellphone service along a 70-kilometre stretch of Highway 37 in northern British Columbia.
Through its Broadband Fund, the CRTC will fund Rogers for the construction of new cell towers. This will bring improved access to emergency services and positively impact nearby communities, many which are Indigenous.
“We know how important high-quality communications services are to every aspect of peoples’ daily lives. Today, we are taking action to help improve cellphone services for communities and travellers along Highway 37 in northern B.C.” said Vicky Eatrides, Chairperson and CEO of the CRTC.
The project has the support of the Chiefs of the Tahltan Band Council and the Iskut Band Council. They highlighted Highway 37’s crucial role in regional economic activities and emphasized the benefits expected from improved cell service, such as health, safety, education, social and economic development, and environmental protection.
Since its launch in 2019, the CRTC Broadband Fund has expanded high-speed internet to underserved rural communities. To date, the CRTC has committed over $300 million for high-speed Internet and cellphone service improvements in more than 230 communities.
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Hey Rogers how about you increase your cell services in Northern Ontario as well, Bell out numbers you about 6-1 on how many towers there are up here going past North Bay and Sudbury and you have virtually no service along the entire length of ON highway 144 from Timmins to Sudbury and that’s a dangerous highway especially in the winter.
They know if they wait the government will just pay them to do it. Why spend their profits if they can just use our tax dollars.
Yeah, funny how they go “oh we have to cut network development funding if you force us to have reasonable wholesale prices” but they immediately start working when they can gauge Joe Taxpayer.
If I didn’t know better I’d say you found a page out of robelus’s forward planning playbook.