Hooray for the tubes! (Internet)

So, there's finally a plan in place to give all rural areas in NB high-speed internet. And I couldn't be happier about it.

Not that it affects me in any way, because back home, we live just within range to get Aliant's connection. No, I'm happy for my cousins leaving not even half a mile up the road from me. Aliant has been stingy with them. They can't get high-speed, yet they CAN get dial-up. I still really don't see how such a tiny distance between where our house is and theirs would make a difference. But, okay then.

Anyway, this new plan may help them solve that problem. Woodstock's own Barrett Xplore, an internet company, plans on using the 13 million dollars given to them by the government to expand their broadband access province-wide. Currently, 90% of the province has high-speed. If their plan succeeds, the entire province will soon be high-speed friendly.

There's no set date on when this will happen, but they want to set up towers by May 1 and have a fixed wireless service by July 2010. I know I'll be telling my cousins about this, so hopefully it WILL happen. It's time we caught up with the rest of the country technologically, and if this way works out, no one will have to be hearing those annoying, screechy dial-up tones ever again. And what a great day that will be.