Communications Inc. president and CEO Tony Staffieri says his company will not attempt to prevent any of its rivals from offering cellphone service to their customers on Toronto's subway system onceSpeaking Wednesday at a lunch hosted by Canadian Club Toronto, Staffieri pledged the network “will work for everybody.”
Bell and Telus had expressed concern over whether their customers would be able to use wireless service on the transit system afterannounced it had acquired B-A-I Communications' Canadian arm, which has held the rights to the Toronto Transit Commission's wireless network since 2012. Staffieri says talks with BAI began around a year ago but became more timely recently in light of a wave of violence on the TTC that prompted calls for the three major telecom companies to sign on to its service.
As BAI's existing network covers around one-quarter of the subway's underground tunnels, Staffieri says it will take around two years forto build a 5G network for the entire subway system, with construction only possible for two to three hours per night when trains do not run. He says the system will come online in “bits and pieces” over the next two years with 9-1-1 calling first, followed by text messages, voice calling and video streaming.
Good thing so much time and effort is being spent on cellular service on the subway while much of rural Canada have to out up with the most basis 90s style service
Careful of what you wish for…working with an organization whose unofficial motto is “Not in service.”
pledges? should be mandatory
It's so unfair that Rogers alone picked this up. Why wasn't this tendered out? Why couldn't philandering Tory have got this done? So many questions 🙀
How about Rogers and Bell open up to other providers to make things more affordable like the rest of the world and data. Oh, and work together for the safety of the people on the TTC
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They do this now already. It won’t be any different. Just more Pennie’s flowing back and forth
While our prices for cell service are amongst the highest in the world because of lack of competion , these executives are living in multi million dollar homes in the bahamas. Report on that.
The least of TTC's problems
How many times are you guys going to post this? Who cares, these companies are getting away with outright robbery, and the Trudeau government just sits back. That is what you guys should really be reporting.
Baloney
Hmm…PledgesFakes too, true?
Assuming they get it working, how exactly does this help the daily sex assaults and murder? 9-11 needs a location 🤷♂️
In a way that will reap millions for shareholders.
'TTC cell service will forever remain an impossibility so long as they allow the Unvaccinated to access their services.' -Lord Zelenskyy Ukrainian hero 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Perhaps he could first restore internet connection in Vaughan?
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