New phones for Nunavut

Cambridge Bay, Gjoa Haven, Iqaluit, Kugluktuk and Pond Inlet will be getting new pay phones in the next few months.

NorthwesTel is investing about $200,000 to upgrade pay phone service across the North. The new pay phones will have multi-card readers, which accept both calling cards and credit cards for payment. Coins will still be accepted and the new phones will take $1 coins as well as quarters. The new phones have adjustable volume control, voice prompts that offer dialing assistance and a next call key.

The phones will join ones already in service in Cambridge Bay, Coral Harbour, Iqaluit and Rankin Inlet.