{"id":132472,"date":"2025-09-12T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:18:11","slug":"xplore-bringing-high-speed-internet-to-nearly-280-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132472\/","title":{"rendered":"Xplore Bringing High Speed Internet to Nearly 280 Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/xplorenet-high-speed-internet-xplore-ceo-brent-johnston-premier-john-hogan.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Xplore Bringing High Speed Internet to Nearly 280 Communities\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 280 communities are getting new high-speed internet, with the first launch of service off Roaches Line this week.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of a $96-million infusion from both the federal and provincial governments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/xplorenet-high-speed-internet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279547\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/xplorenet-high-speed-internet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-279547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Service was announced this week through Xplore, which says without government assistance, the project would cost thousands per kilometre, and described it as cost and labour-intensive.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Xplore, Brent Johnston, says Newfoundland\u2019s geography also makes it hard to expand service in a cost-effective way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/xplorenet-high-speed-internet-xplore-ceo-brent-johnston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/xplorenet-high-speed-internet-xplore-ceo-brent-johnston.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-279546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xplore CEO Brent Johnston (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re on the prairies, for example, you\u2019ve got dirt in the ground and long straight stretches and it\u2019s a little more cost effective. We\u2019re able to provide services more easily,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the polls in the background here actually aren\u2019t into the earth, they\u2019re in cribs with rocks in them. So not being able to dig easily given the terrain here in Newfoundland puts an incremental expense and effort into the build.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) Nearly 280 communities are getting new high-speed internet, with the first launch of service off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-132472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}