SaskTel extending support to those impacted by wildfires in Northern Saskatchewan

July 31, 2025

SaskTel today announced it is extending its support for customers impacted by ongoing wildfires in northern Saskatchewan. These supports will now remain in place until August 15th for residents of communities that have been evacuated due to wildfire activity.

“This year’s wildfire season has been especially challenging, displacing thousands of Saskatchewan people from their homes and communities,” said Jeremy Harrison, Minister Responsible for SaskTel. “Through SaskTel, the Government of Saskatchewan is committed to helping families stay connected to loved ones and vital services. By waiving wireless data overage fees and crediting maxTV and home internet charges, we’re working to ease some of the burden during this difficult time.”

As part of these extended measures, SaskTel will:

• Waive all wireless data overage charges for customers in evacuated communities.
• Credit charges for SaskTel Internet, maxTV Stream, and Home Phone services for affected customers.

These supports will be applied automatically and will remain in effect as long as a community remains under evacuation due to wildfire conditions until August 15th, 2025.

For the most up to date list of eligible communities, please visit www.sasktel.com/wildfires.

About SaskTel

SaskTel is the leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) provider in Saskatchewan, with approximately $1.3 billion in annual revenue and nearly 1.4 million customer connections including more than 680,000 wireless accesses, 228,000 wireline network accesses, 293,000 internet and data accesses, 107,000 maxTV service subscribers, and 68,000 security monitoring customers. SaskTel and its wholly-owned subsidiaries offer a wide range of ICT products and services including competitive voice, data and Internet services, wireless data services, maxTV services, data centre services, cloud-based services, security monitoring services, advertising services, and international software and consulting services. SaskTel and its wholly-owned subsidiaries have a workforce of approximately 3,200 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs). Visit SaskTel at www.sasktel.com.