CONNECTIVITY
Telecommunications
High speed, wireless, and DSL are available in most areas. There are also pockets of true broadband, with many municipalities, like Cranbrook, working on getting the service for key areas of the city for business. St. Mary’s Indian Band has true broadband.
Radium Hot Springs is the first community to have access to an open access fibre optic network (2008). It’s expanding, and Invermere is coming on board.
With the superior connectivity offered by the fibre network, more knowledge-based workers may choose to telecommute.
2008 Newspaper Distribution
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Newspaper Service The Free Press |
Area Elk Valley |
Publication Date Thursday |
Radio
The Drive FM - Cranbrook / Fernie
B104 FM - Cranbrook / Fernie
CKIR AM Golden / Invermere
CBC - (Kelowna based)
Television
SHAW Cable, Cranbrook - serving entire Kootenay region
CTV reporter, Cranbrook - (Lethbridge / Calgary market, which covers our area)
Global reporter, Cranbrook - (Vancouver, which covers significant events here)
Magazines
Kootenay Business Magazine - Cranbrook (serving East and West Kootenay)
Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine
Kootenay Life