Telecom Trends: Running back to Saskatoon

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Running back to Saskatoon

Statistics Canada is reporting that Saskatchewan has replaced Alberta as Canada's fastest growing province.

The province has returned to a population of more than a million for the first time in 6 years.

As a provincial government owned agency, Sasktel operates with an interesting mandate from its shareholder. It has built out high speed internet to every community of more than 200 people and it has invested in upgraded digital wireless in communities that are off the beaten track.

I suspect that some of growth is due to what might be called an Alberta halo effect.

Still, the return to population growth has been enabled by the communications infrastructure put in place by Sasktel, which has been a leader in rolling out a consumer quintuple play.

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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 12/19/2007 12:00:00 PM

Comments:

unfortunately for the people in Saskatchewan this has been done by Sasktel isolating itself from most telecom competition compared to other parts of the country which means their freedom to selection suppliers whether wireless or wireline is very limited.

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