Dec 5 2007
MTS Allstream, one of Canada’s leading national communication solutions providers, recently announced that it has expanded its facility-based IP broadband network to Newfoundland. This expansion was the final leg of a coast-to-coast national fibre-optic network designed to provide MTS Allstream customers with cost effective, advanced IP-based products and services.
MTS Allstream participated in a consortium led by Persona Communications Corp., now owned by Eastlink, in this major redundant fibre optic build stretching from Halifax, Nova Scotia to St. John’s, Newfoundland. The expansion enables MTS Allstream to bring new competitive alternatives and solutions to the businesses of Newfoundland, including the company’s innovative next-generation IP-based services.
“This achievement marks a significant milestone for MTS Allstream and the people of Newfoundland, and forever changes the landscape of the telecom industry in Atlantic Canada. The door is now open for new services, and more choice for businesses. We are proud to be the first telecommunications provider to leverage this new alternative fibre-based route to bring competitive services to Newfoundland,” said Paul Frizado, Chief Technology Information Officer, MTS Allstream. “With this network investment, we extended our national, coast-to-coast fibre-optic network to multiple communities in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, which will allow us to meet the ever-increasing needs of customers for bandwidth and innovative services in Newfoundland, and nationwide.”
The network expansion, most importantly, establishes two new and diverse submarine cables connecting Newfoundland to the mainland, with over 3,000 kilometres of new fibre infrastructure, and delivers the robustness and reliability that is increasingly important in all businesses and communities