Description: Summary
Northwestel is built on ideas - and connections are made from ideas. Northwestel is bringing us together. For over 60 years, Northwestel has served the largest operating area in the Western hemisphere and played a large hand in transforming communications in Northern Canada. As part of our 2011 Vision, we will focus on offering innovative technology to our customers - making connections happen in their lives. A communications & entertainment leader, Northwestel delivers a broad range of telecommunications solutions & television services to a population of 120,000 northern Canadians in 96 communities scattered throughout the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern British Columbia and Alberta. All of our more than 500 employees live and work in communities all across the North. This dataset provides the locations of Northwestel's Fibre Optic Lines in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon.
Description
This dataset provides the locations of Northwestel's Fibre Optic lines in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon.
The cad file has the datum (LL83) stored in the drawing. Might not be much use unless you have a Map 3D product to view it.
As far as the abbreviations are concerned:
C.O. = Central Office
M/W = Microwave site with tower
Earth Stn = Satellite site (where it is in a different location than the community C.O.)
Cell = Cell tower site
Fibre = Fibre repeater site