The City of Dryden is well serviced by state-of-the-art competitively priced telecom solutions ensuring individuals and businesses have multiple points of access to global communications. Dryden Municipal Telephone System (DMTS) is a full service telecommunications company owned by the City of Dryden. Established in 1912 DMTS operates as an independent local exchange carrier, providing telephone, cellular service, radio paging, highspeed internet, highspeed wireless internet, and satellite telephone and internet service to the City of Dryden, and surrounding area in Northwestern Ontario. DMTS provides engineering, installation and service on a wide variety of telecommunications equipment for business and residential purposes.

Dryden’s telecommunications infrastructure enables the Dryden Regional Health Centre to be a partner in the Ontario Telehealth Network, Canada’s busiest telemedicine program. Using telemedicine Dryden Regional Health delivers clinical care, professional education and health-related administrative services. Using live, two-way videoconferencing, clinicians apply the latest telediagnostic instruments – including digital stethoscopes, patient examination cameras, endoscopic equipment and digital imaging facilities – to examine and prescribe treatment so that a remote patient can "visit” an out-of-town specialist from their home community rather than having to travel.

For 127 years Bell Canada has served Canadians’ communication needs. With local and long distance phone service, wireless voice and data services, internet access, satellite television, and a host of other solutions and services to Canadian homes and businesses.

Sympatico provides fast, consistent Internet access to over 2.4 million subscribers, whether through High-Speed, Ultra, fibre-optic or wireless broadband service. Bell also collaborates with Microsoft Corporation to offer Canadians the Sympatico.MSN.ca portal, Canada's most popular Internet destination, with information, entertainment, broadband content and premium features.

Digital Voice is a leading-edge IP telephony service for consumers. The first of its kind in Canada, it delivers advanced IP-based communications capabilities together with the quality and reliability of Bell's networks, without the need for an Internet connection.

TBayTel enhances wireless service through expansion, research, technological advancements and support services. Stay on the cutting edge with the value that TBayTel offers. Hook up to TBayTel's high quality, reliable and affordable mobility solutions for your business and personal needs and talk it up.

TBayTel's data roaming service now extends beyond Canada to the United States. Connect with voice and data to keep in touch on your BlackBerry, Treo or other wireless device.

Shaw Communications Inc. is a diversified Canadian communications company whose core business is providing broadband cable television, High-Speed Internet, Digital Phone, telecommunications services (through Shaw Business Solutions) and satellite direct-to-home services (through Star Choice Communications Inc.) to 3.2-million customers. Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 index (Symbol: TSX - SJR.B, NYSE - SJR).

Shaw Communications Inc. was incorporated in 1966 under the name Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd. It subsequently changed its name to Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. in 1984, and then to Shaw Communications Inc. in 1993. Over the years, Shaw has greatly expanded its network and its leading edge product and service offerings and is now the leading residential broadband service provider in Western Canada, with approximately 2.1 million cable television customers and more than one million internet customers.

Shaw Business Solutions Inc., formerly Big Pipe Inc., owns and operates a national fibre-optic backbone network, providing data networking, video, and Internet services to North American organizations.

In addition to being the primary Internet backbone for Shaw's broadband Internet customers, Shaw Business Solutions offers services to Internet service providers, carriers and large enterprises.