Cellular Communications

There are key challenges in providing cellular services in remote and sparsely-populated regions, and to date, an estimated 8% of Canada's population still does not have access to cellular services. This situation is particularly acute in rural communities in the northern and remote regions of Canada, as the costs of extending cell phone coverage to these areas have, until now, been thought to exceed the revenues resulting from such an extension. OmniGlobe Networks, in partnership with Naskapi Imuun, a First Nation corporation from the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach, have developed a unique low-cost cellular-satellite offering that is ideally suited for deployment in remote and rural communities, meeting all the technical, price and scalability requirements.

OmniGlobe’s unique solution provides an optimised backhauling for a cellular network over a satellite link that can be quickly deployed to serve remote communities. The service is based on OmniGlobe’s new satellite-cellular technology platform which creates a local wireless network, based on a well-established standard used throughout North America, providing remote communities with cellular services that are currently available only to urban inhabitants. The local network is interconnected via satellite to global cellular and telephone networks, providing local, long-distance and roaming capabilities.  Unique technology is used to combine cellular networks with satellite transmission, resulting in a seamlessly integrated solution.

Benefits of cell services include higher productivity and improved safety; in many remote regions, these benefits can be acutely significant.