Eeyou Mobility connects cellphone dead zones in Quebec – The Globe and Mail

November 25, 2025

In northern Quebec, an Indigenous-owned telecom company is bringing cell service to an area the length of Germany, as part of a broader push to connect Canada’s many dead zones on rural roads and highways.

Eeyou Mobility, a Cree-led telecom formed to serve an area mainly populated by Indigenous communities, is building a network of fibre-linked cell towers with the goal of covering a region that previously had none, according to its founders.

“It was a big, empty, dangerous mass,” said Dean Proctor, one of Eeyou’s co-directors. “There was a crying need for better cell service in the communities and on roads.”

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