A bill to improve cellular coverage in New Brunswick

The government must be pushed to act to improve cellular network coverage along New Brunswick’s roads and highways, according to the Liberal MP for Edmundston—Madawaska-Centre, Jean-Claude D’Amours, who has just tabled a bill on this subject to the Legislative Assembly.

The bill is to set up a fund which will ensure that we can build infrastructureexplains Jean-Claude D’Amours during an interview given Wednesday to the show The morningfrom ICI Acadie.

The fund could be discussed with various partners, whether at the government level, including the federal government, or with private companies. Then, ensure the deployment of the necessary infrastructure to improve cellular coverage across the province.

If his bill is adopted, however, we should not expect the construction of cellular communication towers the next day, he says, but he believes that it would force the government to work with its partners to find solutions.

Uneven coverage in New Brunswick

Residents, entrepreneurs and municipal elected officials in some places denounce poor coverage. Communities are particularly concerned about cellular communications with emergency services.

Even along the Trans-Canada Highway, coverage is poor, underlines the MP who often travels on this important route.

You know, it’s amazing how many times we have to call back or talk into nothing because no one can hear us on the other end. It’s an exampleunderlines Mr. D’Amours.

His bill does not only concern the Trans-Canada Highway. We are talking about much broader to ensure that rural regions and other regions can have access to the cellular networkhe said.

The problem particularly affects the regions of Restigouche, the Acadian Peninsula, the South-East and Madawaska, indicates the MP.

Jean-Claude D’Amours is optimistic about the possibility that the Progressive Conservatives will support his bill.

I’m currently looking at what the government has promised in 2020. I think it would be a bit embarrassing for them to try to destroy the intent of my bill. So we will see over the next few days and weeks the government’s intentionconcludes MP D’Amours.

According to information from the show The morning