{"id":75739,"date":"2025-08-17T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75739\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:41:08","slug":"granisle-celebrates-completion-of-fibre-optic-network-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75739\/","title":{"rendered":"Granisle celebrates completion of fibre-optic network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Village of Granisle has completed construction of its community-wide fibre-optic network, with Mayor Linda McGuire telling the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako board on Aug. 14 that residents and businesses are already benefiting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are really happy with it. It\u2019s made a huge difference for us,\u201d McGuire said.\u00a0She also noted the project\u2019s economic impact, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s allowed us to compete in ways we couldn\u2019t before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The high-speed service has replaced older, limited-capacity connections and is improving internet access for homes and businesses throughout the village.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really ripping along,&#8221; McGuire said.<\/p>\n<p>The project, funded through a combination of federal and provincial grants, was designed to support remote work, education, telehealth and online business operations, while accommodating future speed upgrades and additional services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really allowed us to compete,&#8221; McGuire told the board.<\/p>\n<p>RDBN directors congratulated Granisle on the achievement, saying it demonstrated how smaller communities can enhance economic development and quality of life through improved connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Village of Granisle has completed construction of its community-wide fibre-optic network, with Mayor Linda McGuire telling the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-75739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}