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Canada's PUC Telecom has deployed Amperion's Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, to create a giant Wi-Fi hotspot covering the entire city.
It is the first rollout of Amperion's technology in Canada, although the Massachusetts-based firm has delivered its technology to other telecom service providers. Amperion's products are designed to enable service providers to utilize power line infrastructures for broadband data transport.
The service must still be delivered to subscribers in Sault Ste. Marie. The technology uses traditional power lines for initial transport, typically in urban and suburban areas with the service being delivered to end subscribers wirelessly in a service it calls "PowerWi-Fi," an Amperion spokesman said.
"We will quickly move from a market trial to commercial deployments in selected residential and business areas in Sault Ste. Marie," Martin Wyant, PUC Telecom's general manager, said in a statement.
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