Many in Northern BC to get connected to high-speed internet

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“The big difference that we’ve been making since 2017 is in rural and remote households that were just over half, 57 per cent, were connected, and now it’s over 80 per cent. With Indigenous communities, we’ve gotten it to 88 per cent when it was just over two-thirds.”

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The announcement covers the entire province, but closer to home, some of the communities include Buckhorn, Red Rock, Strathnaver, Stoner, Dunkley, Hixon and Woodpecker as you head south. Heading west, areas like Mud river, Francois Lake, Lake Babine Nation, Topley and Topley Landing, Endako and Houston. Those connections will add roughly 65-hundred households.

And while connectivity is a household convenience, its a bigger picture than that for rural communities.

“Instead of you having to travel all the way to Vancouver to see a specialist to connectivity specialists, and you could sit in separate rooms hundreds of miles apart,” says Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State for Rural Development. “That could reduce fatigue on the patient to reduce costs. And we can usher in a new air era where there is really quick connectivity between the patient and specialist that could be miles away.”

So whether you live in Prince George proper or Lake Babine First Nation, you’ll soon be as connected as you can be.