Bell takes another major step forward today as Canada’s broadband communications leader with our announcement of the all-new Gigabit Fibe. The fastest Internet service available when it launches this summer, Gigabit Fibe will take full advantage of Bell’s powerful fibre network to deliver unmatched gigabit download speeds of 1000 Megabits per second or more.
We announced the new Gigabit Fibe service this morning in Toronto alongside our $1.14 billion project to further expand fibre to the home across Canada’s biggest urban centre. Bell’s Toronto project outpaces the much publicized rollout of Google Fiber and similar gigabit services in US cities, and none is faster than Gigabit Fibe. It’s the biggest single infrastructure project in Bell’s plan to invest $20 billion from 2015 to the end of 2020 in broadband fibre and wireless network expansion.
Bell’s Gigabit Fibe announcement is the result of our success in building fibre out across cities in Québec, Atlantic Canada and Ontario, highlighted by our extensive rollouts across Québec City; in Fredericton, the first city in North America fully connected with fibre; and in smaller communities like Sudbury and Peterborough.
Gigabit Fibe will be available this summer in approximately 50,000 of the 1.1 million locations planned for Toronto, and in many of our other fibre cities at the same time or over the next year. These centres include Québec City, locations in Montréal, Laval, Blainville, Gatineau, Joliette, Saint-Jérôme, Chicoutimi, Sherbrooke, Shawinigan, Vaudreuil/Valleyfield, Fredericton, Charlottetown, St. John’s, Halifax, Saint John, Moncton, Sudbury, North Bay, Peterborough and Kingston. As we continue our $20 billion network expansion, we’ll be announcing even more Gigabit cities.
To learn more about our Gigabit Fibe plans and the Toronto project, including our plan to donate Gigabit Fibe to the United Way Community Hubs in the city, please read today’s news release and visit Bell.ca/Fibe.
Fast fibre networks are the core of Bell’s increasing success in the marketplace and growing customer satisfaction with our TV and Internet services. The superior Fibe TV and FibreOP TV, have brought a better choice in television to consumers, and they’re responding. Bell IPTV services have grown every quarter since they launched, compared with significant and ongoing declines in traditional cable TV, quickly making Bell Canada’s second-biggest TV provider. We expect to be #1 this year.
Bell fibre is also winning the Internet. We are Canada’s biggest Internet service provider with approximately 3.3 million customers and we continue to build on our lead. Combined, Bell Canada and Bell Aliant gained more new Internet customers in 2014 and in Q1 2015 than any other company in Canada, and more than all our major competitors combined. Gigabit Fibe will take things even further by offering residential and business customers blazing fast data access speeds they can’t get from cable.
Broadband networks have transformed our company and they’ve transformed the way Canadians communicate by delivering superior services and premium content at faster and faster speeds, and an improved customer experience at every level.
Today’s announcement makes a clear statement about Bell’s return to leadership in Canadian communications, and how your execution of our 6 Strategic Imperatives is taking us forward. Thank you everyone for your dedication to making Bell better.
Edit by Dr.Dave: Fixed links, changed Bell internal site to public news release.
We announced the new Gigabit Fibe service this morning in Toronto alongside our $1.14 billion project to further expand fibre to the home across Canada’s biggest urban centre. Bell’s Toronto project outpaces the much publicized rollout of Google Fiber and similar gigabit services in US cities, and none is faster than Gigabit Fibe. It’s the biggest single infrastructure project in Bell’s plan to invest $20 billion from 2015 to the end of 2020 in broadband fibre and wireless network expansion.
Bell’s Gigabit Fibe announcement is the result of our success in building fibre out across cities in Québec, Atlantic Canada and Ontario, highlighted by our extensive rollouts across Québec City; in Fredericton, the first city in North America fully connected with fibre; and in smaller communities like Sudbury and Peterborough.
Gigabit Fibe will be available this summer in approximately 50,000 of the 1.1 million locations planned for Toronto, and in many of our other fibre cities at the same time or over the next year. These centres include Québec City, locations in Montréal, Laval, Blainville, Gatineau, Joliette, Saint-Jérôme, Chicoutimi, Sherbrooke, Shawinigan, Vaudreuil/Valleyfield, Fredericton, Charlottetown, St. John’s, Halifax, Saint John, Moncton, Sudbury, North Bay, Peterborough and Kingston. As we continue our $20 billion network expansion, we’ll be announcing even more Gigabit cities.
To learn more about our Gigabit Fibe plans and the Toronto project, including our plan to donate Gigabit Fibe to the United Way Community Hubs in the city, please read today’s news release and visit Bell.ca/Fibe.
Fast fibre networks are the core of Bell’s increasing success in the marketplace and growing customer satisfaction with our TV and Internet services. The superior Fibe TV and FibreOP TV, have brought a better choice in television to consumers, and they’re responding. Bell IPTV services have grown every quarter since they launched, compared with significant and ongoing declines in traditional cable TV, quickly making Bell Canada’s second-biggest TV provider. We expect to be #1 this year.
Bell fibre is also winning the Internet. We are Canada’s biggest Internet service provider with approximately 3.3 million customers and we continue to build on our lead. Combined, Bell Canada and Bell Aliant gained more new Internet customers in 2014 and in Q1 2015 than any other company in Canada, and more than all our major competitors combined. Gigabit Fibe will take things even further by offering residential and business customers blazing fast data access speeds they can’t get from cable.
Broadband networks have transformed our company and they’ve transformed the way Canadians communicate by delivering superior services and premium content at faster and faster speeds, and an improved customer experience at every level.
Today’s announcement makes a clear statement about Bell’s return to leadership in Canadian communications, and how your execution of our 6 Strategic Imperatives is taking us forward. Thank you everyone for your dedication to making Bell better.
Edit by Dr.Dave: Fixed links, changed Bell internal site to public news release.