Northwestel delivers a broad range of telecommunications solutions to a population of 110,000 northern Canadians in 96 communities scattered throughout the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northern British Columbia. No telecommunications company in the Western hemisphere serves an operating area larger than Northwestel's.
Navigo Broadband recently launched its new high-speed wireless broadband Internet services in Whitehorse, Yukon. The service is being offered to residential and small business customers through the use of WiMax. The network currently covers more than 70 percent of households in Whitehorse and further expansions are already being considered.
"The really exciting thing is that our customers can now take their Internet with them, from home to work to school", says Shabbir Lasani, market development manager for Navigo Broadband. "And now, with the addition of extremely reliable email, calendaring, instant messaging and other collaboration services through our partnership with BlueTie, our family of Navigo Broadband users can easily and instantly communicate wherever their busy lives take them."
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Photo Whitehorse, the capital city of the Yukon, taken from the East bank of the Yukon River. GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
