Company improves Internet to remote areas
Summary
Upper Paradise Valley homes will be the latest to get broadband Internet service as part of a plan to upgrade technology in rural areas of the region. Whistler‘s Base Technology, which also has operations in Squamish and Pemberton, is overseeing the project and applied for the grants in January 2015. This marks a change in how people are using the Internet, going from simple email or web searches to watching streamed video. The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District worked with Base Technology to apply for another grant, this one to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities for money from a federal gas tax fund, to help expand broadband service to rural areas. The grants, according to Peterson, are crucial, especially for residential customers in remote areas, because these allow companies to provide service at a reasonable rate.