Telus invests $95m to bring fibre, LTE and more to remote Quebec communities

250,000 families and businesses will get direct access to Telus' PureFibre network

Telus announced another significant investment, this time to the tune of $95 million to assist connect its wireless and fibre optic networks to rural communities in Greater Quebec City and Eastern Quebec.

The investment includes a financial contribution of $25.7 million from the federal Connect to Innovate and provincial Québec branché programs. This will assistance accelerate the deployment of Telus' ultra-high-speed and fibre optic networks.

Additionally, Telus says the investment will assist it reach 34,000 new families and businesses in 80 remote communities.

"Our 6,000 squad members in Quebec eagerly tackle every technological hurdle when deploying loftier-speed networks in Quebec's remote areas to bridge the digital divide," said François Gratton, group president of Telus and chair of Telus Quebec.

"Nosotros believe every family and business should have an equal opportunity to prosper in our increasingly dynamic digital gild no thing where they live."

Telus says it will take invested over $300 meg between 2013 and 2021. These investments will expand its PureFibre network in the eastern function of Quebec. Farther, it includes $72 million in back up class the federal and provincial governments.

The Vancouver-based carrier plans to offer directly fibre access to 93 percent of Greater Quebec City and Eastern Quebec residents within the next 2 years.

PureFibre, high-speed net and wireless coming to several Quebec communities

The $95 million investment will help Telus deploy its PureFibre network to homes and businesses in more than 70 remote and depression-density communities in the post-obit regional community municipalities (RCM):

des Chenaux
Côte-de-Gaspé
Haute-Côte-Nord
Haute-Gaspésie
L'Islet/Montmagny
Matapédia
Mitis
Mékinac
Portneuf
Sept-Rivières

Past the finish of 2019, Telus expects 89 percent of households — more than 250,000 families and businesses — volition have directly access to fibre.

Additionally, Telus will commencement ane of the largest digital infrastructure projects n of the 49th parallel. The project will connect the following communities to high-speed internet and LTE mobile phone service for the first time:

Blanc-Sablon
Centre Bay
Pakuashipi
Rivière-Saint-Paul
Saint-Augustin
Vieux Fort

The carrier will collaborate with the federal and provincial authorities for the deployment, which volition continue through 2020. Further, the projection will deliver a 40-fold expansion in bandwidth available to hundreds of families and businesses in the expanse.

Finally, Telus says it volition raise the coverage, speed and reliability of its wireless network through infrastructure upgrades. Additionally, it will add virtually ten new sites in the coming months. Some of the sites will be in the RCM of Beauce-Sartigan, Manicouagan and Sept-Rivières.

Telus also announced investments to meliorate wireless and access to fibre in B.C.