SaskTel
| Saskatchewan Telecommunications
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| legal form | State company |
| founding | June 12, 1908 |
| Seat |
 Canada , Regina
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| management | Hon. Don Morgan Ron Styles (President and CEO) |
| Number of employees | 5000 |
| sales | 121.4 million CAD (2008) |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | www.sasktel.com |
Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel) is a Canadian telecommunications company and service provider headquartered in Regina . The state-owned telecommunications company operates under the Authority of the Saskatchewan Telecommunications Act . It is the last state-owned telecommunications company in Canada.
The company supplies 13 cities, including 535 smaller communities and around 49,000 farms. The company has 425,000 business and private customers, for whom 5,000 employees are responsible. SaskTel is owned by Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation , which manages the company's $ 1.2 billion assets.
While SaskTel is responsible for the core area of telecommunications, the company has several smaller business areas that are responsible for the following services:
- SecurTek sells remotely monitored security systems for private and business areas.
- SaskTel International sells network systems, network management and other interactive services in other countries.
- Hospitality Network Canada Inc. (HNCI) provides communication tools for the medical sector, including: a. Hospital patient TV and telephone services.
- Direct West publishes print media and online directories, as well as web hosting and website design services.
Products and services
- Landline connections and Internet access
- Digital TV (Sasktel Max), including HDTV
- Cellular with (CDMA / HSPA + / GSM)
- Wireless data services
- Wireless internet
- Phones and other hardware for rent
- Voice messaging
- Conference calls
- Security system solutions
- Voice Over IP (VoIP)
- International Consulting, Provisioning and Software Solutions
- Web hosting and website design
- Print and online directories
Company milestones
- 1984 SaskTel puts the world's longest commercially used fiber optic system into operation, with a length of 3,268 kilometers.
- In 1988 the first fiber / coaxial hybrid network with video-on-demand was developed.
- In 2002 the first commercially used Internet Protocol (IP) video for DSL was developed.
- In 2006, SaskTel was the first North American company to offer HDTV television channels over IPTV.
- 2009 SaskTel began developing and building the 172 million Euro Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) / High Speed Packet Access (HSPA +), which SaskTel can use to operate the 3G + network that covers 98% of the provincial population.
- In 2010, SaskTel put the new HSPA + network into operation. First of all, larger cities and municipalities were covered with the new high-speed access. All cities and municipalities are to be connected to the network by the end of 2011.
- 2011, SaskTel began modernizing its fiber optic network. The investment will enable Internet speeds of 200 Mbps and the transmission of multiplex MAX HD streams.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, Jan. 19, 2012
- ^ The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, Jan. 19, 2012
- ↑ Business Library, January 19, 2012 ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Canada.com, January 19, 2012 ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ SaskTel, January 19, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
