Dryden Municipal Telephone System (DMTS) is a formerly-municipally owned

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company in

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, Canada, offering local residential and business land line service within Dryden, long-distance service to Dryden and surrounding areas. DMTS is also the largest internet service provider in the region, providing DSL, Dial-up, and operating the largest high-speed wireless internet network in Northwestern Ontario providing coverage to more than 1000 square kilometers around Dryden. DMTS also has a partnership with Xplornet for satellite internet service.

Bell Aliant Bell Aliant is a brand name used by Bell Canada for telecommunications services in Atlantic Canada. Prior to 2015, Bell Aliant Inc. (formerly Aliant Inc.) was a separate company providing telecom services in the Atlantic provinces and a few othe ...

completed its purchase of DMTS on January 1, 2013. Bell Aliant plans on continuing to use the DMTS brand name. Since 2016 it has been considered a subsidiary of BCE as

's operations were consolidated into those of Bell Canada.

Dryden Mobility

Dryden Mobility was the cellular division of DMTS, with three

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cell sites operating in the 800 MHz band, covering the city and approximately 60 kilometers of the

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. In 2009 Dryden Mobility began conversion to a

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network in the 850 MHz band intended to cover a greater area than that covered by their CDMA network, from

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in the west, to

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to the north, east to Hearst, and south to Sault Ste. Marie. Dryden Mobility operated as an independent wireless carrier, though

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agreements were in place with

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. In November 2012,

Tbaytel Tbaytel, formerly the Thunder Bay Telephone Company, is a municipally-owned telecommunications company operating in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and the surrounding area. Tbaytel's services include data, voice, wireless, internet, digital TV and ...

purchased DMTS's cell phone subscriber base.Tbaytel Press Release
/ref> DMTS's cell phone towers were shut down by December 21, 2012. Not all phones on DMTS's network were compatible with the Tbaytel cellular network.

References

External links

Official website
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