Valdor Technology Intl. Inc. (fka VTIFF)

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Internet fibre race down to the wire for telecoms


Telus is extending its fibre-optic network to the Sunshine Coast, the company confirmed this week. The move is part of a $1-billion investment by Telus in its fibre-optic network across B.C.

The Vancouver announcement is also part of a larger capital spending push by Telus and other telephone companies such as BCE Inc. to upgrade their networks to fibre, which transmits data over ultra-thin strands of glass using pulses of light. Fibre is fast and has much greater bandwidth capacity than the copper wires traditionally used for the “last mile” in telephone networks.
Telcos need to upgrade so they can keep up with speed and capacity demands as both residential and business customers use more and more Internet data. They also need the upgraded infrastructure to support their wireless services, which rely on the wires in the ground to provide a connection to the Internet.

There has been a spike in billion-dollar spending announcements recently, with Telus announcing similar fibre investment plans for Edmonton and BCE unveiling its own plans to expand its fibre network in Toronto within weeks of each other in June.

Telus has been installing fibre in smaller communities across British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec – where it operates its legacy wireline business – since 2013. It is now taking the experience it gained through 60 such projects (with 28 now fully built) and will apply that to larger ones in cities like Edmonton and Vancouver. The Vancouver project is part of a plan to invest an additional $4-billion in B.C. through 2018.

The company said on Friday the first Vancouver neighbourhoods to be connected next year will be able to access download speeds of 150 megabits per second. In the coming years, it will offer increasingly higher speeds over its “gigabit-enabled network” as demand increases.


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