Cable / Telecom News

CityWest and CCCS bringing fibre network to Bella Coola Valley

PRINCE RUPERT — Municipally owned telecom company CityWest announced yesterday it will be collaborating with the Central Coast Communications Society (CCCS), an Internet services provider based in Bella Coola, to connect several communities in the B.C. coastal region to a fibre-to-the-home network. Communities to be covered by the fibre network project include Bella Coola, Four Mile, Hagensborg and the territories of the Nuxalk First Nation, all located in Bella Coola Valley. “This official collaboration will empower us to extend service through the rest of the valley, to execute on the society’s greater vision for connectivity, and to create some amazing...