December 27, 2014
Good news for Canadians! Even though isn’t really related with any operator presented on our page, the article is important for all cellphone users from North America as starting 2015 cellphone service has big chances to be available for all people who’ll drive on the Canadian portion of the Alaska Highway. The infrastructure needed is expected to be arranged from approximately the region of Fort St. John all through the surface of Alaska.
"We've done it!"
To support this hypothesis a statement from the company which deals with the organization of the necessary infrastructure came recently. “We’ve done Whitehorse! And then throughout 2015, we should be covering all the way on the Alaska Highway from about Fort St. John right through to Alaska”, explained says Rick Panoulias, the service manager of North Peace Communications.
More than 100 cellphone tower will be erected
The infrastructure is consisted in the biggest measures of small cellphone towers which will be erected all along the highway. It looks like around one hundred such devices will appear in the mentioned spot, permitting drivers to get signal all the way on the Canadian part of the Alaska Highway. The carrier which will be responsible for delivering signal and services, RuralCom, is enthusiastic and looks forward for the upcoming year to see how things will work.
RuralCom aims higher in 2016 and 2017
“In addition to bringing new competition to the areas RuralCom will serve, the company expects its network to significantly enhance public safety for all wireless users and travellers whether they are RuralCom subscribers or roamers from other network operators”, said Bob Hillman, president and CEO of the company, reminding also that RuralCom has even bigger plans for the next two years, 2016 and 2017. Let’s just wait and see how things will end up.