September 7, 2010

Bell, Bell Aliant to build high-speed internet network for eastern Ontario

TORONTO

Telecom companies Bell and Bell Aliant have been selected to build a high-speed Internet network to serve an estimated 95 per cent of residents and businesses in eastern Ontario.

Construction of the $170-million project will take place over the next two years, the federal and Ontario governments announced Aug. 31.

“Bell Aliant and Bell are pleased to have been selected to complete this significant communications infrastructure project together for the homes and businesses of eastern Ontario,” said Chuck Hartlen, senior vice-president of Bell Aliant’s customer solutions.

“By building this core backbone fibre network and by using our extensive communications and technology expertise, we will be enabling access to faster, next generation broadband technology to 95 per cent of this eastern Ontario region,” Hartlen said in a news release.

The project is being billed as Ontario’s largest rural broadband network and will serve an estimated one million residents and businesses.

The service area for the network project includes the counties of Hastings, Peterborough, Renfrew, Northumberland, Haliburton, Frontenac, Lanark, Prince Edward, Lennox & Addington and the city of Kawartha Lakes.

DCN News Services

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