Bell boosts internet speeds

Bell Canada, which in years past has been considered a weak player in Canada’s telecom industry, seems prepared to take a step forward.

While Bell has generally been slow in adapting to technological change, they now seem motivated to adapt to faster technologies.

The Canadian based telecom provider now has plans to bring fibre optics into their customer’s homes and expand their highly desired Internet TV.

Fibre optic cabling is a much faster data conduit than traditional telephone wiring, and should provide a much better service for their customers. The new fibre-to-home product rollout will initially happen in Quebec City, where most telephone wires are supported by telephone poles. This is ideal for Bell Canada because installing the new fibre wires on existing telephone poles is far more inexpensive than digging holes for the wires. Bell Canada also plans on introducing their new technologies to newer homes in the Ontario region.

Cusomters outside of Quebec City and Ontario won’t receive the fiber-to-home product, but instead will receive fiber-to-node connections. With these connections cables are brought near a home and then distributed with copper wiring. The fiber-to-node connection is also considered far superior over the existing network connection.

Two years ago, former Bell Canada CEO, Michael Sabia, announced that Bell Canada would not install the new fibre wiring, which drew heavy criticism from customers and shareholders.

The new CEO, George Cope, made upgrading the company’s networks his top priority and one of the first changes he has made was upgraded to the fibre networking.

Bell To Speed Things Up With More Fibre