$400G ADSL Broadband application
While
the basic installation of Broadband in rural Lumby and Cherryville has
been slow to secure, Vernon began to experience an additional upgrade in
April when Telus announced that it would invest $3 million in that
community this year to expand 4G LTE wireless technologies and introduce
Optik TV to more homes. However,
a groundswell of support is beginning to take shape for the rural
Monashee as decision makers everywhere are finding it’s odd that this
region so close to large population centres is without basic
communication technology. In
fact the subject came up late last week when efforts to bring
agricultural data online to farmers met with a harsh reality. The
Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) is considering implementing an online
application tracking system to digitally capture historic information
and link the information to GIS mapping.Area D Director Rick Fairbairn brought attention to a key problem in the ALC idea.“This
is all fine and dandy but over in Area D and Area E in Cherryville, we
don’t have high speed internet so it makes it very difficult to engage
in such opportunities,” he said.Establishing
the final costs for bringing Broadband to Areas D and E seems to be a
work in progress but nevertheless, funding support is coming forward.
Telus is committed to covering half of the total cost of the upgrade and
the Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust has agreed to supply
$100,000 to support bringing ADSL to Area’s D and E. This
past week both jurisdictions made individual applications which if
successful, would bring $400,000 to support upgrading the required
infrastructure so that Telus ADSL Broadband could be brought to both
areas.The
Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF) is a new, two-year
national program that will invest $150 million to rehabilitate and
improve existing community infrastructure across Canada. It’s intended
to help modernize infrastructure and provide broad-based economic
benefits to communities. *(more)
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