Ontera
| Formerly |
|
|---|---|
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | c. 1902 |
| Headquarters | |
| Services | DSL, wireless broadband, dial-up, landline, long-distance calling |
| Owner | BCE Inc. |
| Parent | Bell Aliant |
| Website | ontera.ca |
Ontera is a telecommunications company in Ontario, Canada. It is a subsidiary of Bell Aliant.
Ontera was founded as the Ontario Northland Telecommunications division of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario. It was the exclusive provider of long-distance calling services in many rural Northeastern Ontario markets until the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved long-distance competition in 2000. The name was changed to O.N.Tel Inc. in the 1990s, then changed its trading name to O.N.Telcom in 2000, and then renamed to Ontera in 2004.[1]
Ontera provides local telephone service in the Northern Ontario towns of Bear Island, Iroquois Falls, Marten River, Moosonee, Moose Factory and Temagami, and also offers long-distance services in most of area code 705.
Ontera owns and operates an extensive fibre optic telecommunications network throughout most of Northeastern Ontario.
Ontera provides customer-premises LAN, VoIP and Internet security systems, DSL, fibre optic and wireless data services.
In September 2008, Ontera announced plans to install a ring network, to strengthen network reliability, which was completed by spring 2009.[2]
In April 2014, the Ontario government announced it would sell Ontera to Bell Aliant.[3][4] The acquisition was completed in October 2014.[5]
References
- ^ "History". About Us. Ontera. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
- ^ "Ontera customers to Benefit from Investment in State-of-the-Art-Network". Ontera press release. 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/ontera-sale-to-bell-aliant-leaves-questions-for-customers-employees-1.2601329
- ^ http://news.ontario.ca/mndmf/en/2014/04/transforming-the-ontario-northland-transportation-commission.html
- ^ Hamilton-McCharles, Jennifer (October 1, 2014). "Bell Aliant acquires Ontera". North Bay Nugget. Retrieved March 5, 2016.