High-speed internet coming to 4,000 rural homes in B.C.

High-speed internet is coming to 50 rural and Indigenous communities in the Thompson Okanagan region.
Soon.
B.C. Minister of Citizens’ Services, Diana Gibson, was in Vernon Wednesday, June 10, at Civic Memorial Park to announce the provincial and federal governments will invest $63 million as part of a larger investment to extend fibre-optic internet to as many as 4,000 households in the region.
The new fibre will connect communities like Falkland, Kingfisher, Silver Creek, Rock Creek, Oka