TORONTO and VANCOUVER — Rogers Communications is expanding its support for vulnerable women and children with the company’s announcement today it is donating thousands of phones and plans to more than 325 women’s shelters and transition houses in Rogers wireless coverage areas during the third wave of the pandemic.
With the expansion of the phone program, Rogers is tripling its support from last year, when at the start of the pandemic Rogers launched a national program with Women’s Shelters Canada to provide hundreds of phones and plans to more than 100 shelters across the country.
In today’s announcement, Rogers says it is donating phones and plans to 100 Ontario women’s shelters and transition houses and 56 in British Columbia. For a list of communities in each province, please see the company’s individual press releases.
The phone donation program is being provided in collaboration with Motorola and LG, says Rogers.
This news follows the company’s announcement earlier this month that it is expanding its wireless network coverage, including 5G, along British Columbia’s Highway of Tears (Highway 16 along the B.C. coast between Prince George and Prince Rupert) and Highway 14 on Vancouver Island. Both projects are designed to enable more safe connectivity by closing gaps in communication along these routes.
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