Keewaytinook Mobile Service launched in Pikangikum First Nation with KO and DMTS partners
Pikangikum First Nation launched its community cellular service last week.
Working with Keewaytinook Mobile (http://mobile.knet.ca), Pikangikum First Nation provided the land and facilities to host the construction of a communications tower and Lemko base station at the local IT/Telecom building. Dryden Municipal Telephone Service (DMTS) was contracted by KM to do the construction work for the site.
In the first week alone, the new mobile service gained extreme poplularity with over 200 phones sold.
Coverage area includes the whole community as well as a location close to Taxi Bay where community park their vehicles to catch a boat ride back to Pikangikum.
Pikangikum now joins six other remote First Nations (Deer Lake, Fort Severn, Keewaywin, North Caribou Lake, North Spirit Lake and Poplar Hill) as a partner in the Keewaytinook Mobile cooperative. Local cell to cell calls can be completed on the DMTS and KNET networks where the service is established.