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

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company in Dryden,

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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.

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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

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. 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 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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