Bell Telecom, Canada’s incumbent operator, has been given the go-ahead by the country’s regulator to roll out WiMax for rural areas. This overturns an August decision which stipulated that the country’s telcos should put aside money to roll out a…
Bell Telecom, Canada’s incumbent operator, has been given the go-ahead by the country’s regulator to roll out WiMax for rural areas. This overturns an August decision which stipulated that the country’s telcos should put aside money to roll out a fixed-line broadband network covering rural zones.
Bell’s domestic rivals say that this gives the country’s largest telco an unfair advantage and that the service it would offer through the HSPA+ wireless network it plans to roll out would not be equal in quality to that on offer in the metropolitan areas.
