The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that in their continuing fight for the home, BCE and Rogers Communications are racing to roll out faster networks while they capitalize on different strengths to win television and Internet customers. The Globe's Christine Dobby writes that in separate announcements this week, the rivals underscored investments they are making to support download speeds of one gigabit per second -- the new frontier in high-speed Internet. On Monday, BCE revealed plans to spend $854-million in Montreal as it extends its fibre-to-the-home push with plans to reach more than half of that city by 2020. Meanwhile, Rogers highlighted its own network upgrades (the company now offers gigabit speeds across its entire service area) with the launch of a project Thursday to connect 20 Toronto-area schools with superfast Internet at no cost. In recent years, BCE gained an edge on the television front with its Fibe TV Internet protocol television (IPTV) product. Rogers has hit back with faster Internet plans at appealing prices, making use of its speed advantage over BCE's older DSL service. In 2018, Rogers plans to launch X1, U.S. cable player Comcast's cloud-based TV platform.