sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message novus entertainment inc. type private industry telecommunications founded 1996 headquarters vancouver british columbia key people donna l. robertson co president clo doug holman co president cfo products cable television broadband internet access telephony owner privately held website novus entertainment novus entertainment commonly known simply as novus is a canadian telecommunications company providing television digital phone and high speed internet services via a fibre optic network . the company is licensed by the canadian radio television and telecommunications commission the crtc as a class 1 broadcast distribution undertaking for both metro vancouver and toronto . novus presently provides services to apartments condominiums and businesses in metro vancouver . novus is one of the few broadband internet carriers in canada to offer a fibre to the building fttb network . 1 the company continues to expand its service in metro vancouver . novus is also in the business of leasing dark fibre to other communications service providers and to businesses . contents 1 internet 2 television 3 telephone 4 novus tv 5 see also 6 notes 7 external links internet edit in july 2011 novus announced its 300 mbit s internet service claiming to be canada s fastest internet service to go into effect july 2011 . due to its use of metro ethernet rather than docsis or dsl technology the carrier allows a direct rj 45 connection into a wall jack circumventing the use of a modem . television edit novus offers analogue and digital sd and hd television services . the carrier continues to add standard and high definition channels to its lineup as they become available . novus cable community channel is branded as novus tv or nvtv 4 . telephone edit in april 2008 novus launched its digital phone voip service through its fibre optic network . novus tv edit novus tv is a locally based community channel operated by novus entertainment inc. novus tv covers a variety of events and issues happening in and around vancouver and the lower mainland and airs numerous locally produced shows short films music videos etc. created by community members . citation needed see also edit fiber optic communication notes edit fibre to the premises by country . external links edit novus entertainment novus community tv v t e cable satellite and other specialty television providers in canada terrestrial and satellite satellite bell tv shaw direct telus satellite tv cable major1 bell cablevision for val d or qc cogeco ontario quebec eastlink atlantic northern ontario western canada look communications mts cable manitoba rogers cable ontario new brunswick source hamilton on shaw western canada northwestern ontario vid otron quebec minor access saskatchewan cable axion magog qc citywest prince rupert bc derytelecom saguenay qc novus cable select areas of bc lower mainland omineca cablevision prince george bc westman brandon mb see also defunct cable and dbs companies of canada iptv bell aliant fibreop bell fibe tv mts ultimate tv sasktel max telus optik tv tbaytel digital tv vmedia zazeen mmds craig wireless africa asia and oceania americas europe 1more than 400 000 television service subscribers . v t e canadian internet service providers incumbent access communications bell internet bell aliant cogeco mts rogers hi speed internet sasktel shaw communications wind mobile telus internet vid otron independent comwave eastlink national capital freenet primus canada ssi micro teksavvy vmedia westman xplornet yourlink zazeen retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title novus entertainment & oldid 734143340 categories telecommunications companies of canadainternet service providers of canadafiber optic communicationsbroadbandcompanies based in vancouverhidden categories articles lacking sources from august 2016all articles lacking sourcesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 august 2016 at 12 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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