CityWest: Cortes Island's new phone, TV and Internet provider
Cortes Currents
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Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - CityWest will also be providing phone and TV to Cortes Islanders who choose these services. Regional Manager Dino Tsakonas told De Clarke, of Cortes Currents, when she was visiting the crew burying fibre optic cable in Squirrel Cove last week.
This was followed by Regional Director Noba Anderson’s announcement on CKTZ’s Folk U Friday.
Tsakonas told me packages are always in the +$20 range.
“There's so many different options, it's really hard for me to go over everything because everyone's going to have a different idea of what they want for the TV, to the long distance on phone, to the type of internet they want, whether they want quantum 20 quantum 50 quantum on 25 quantum 250 quantum gigabit. You can build your own bundle if you go to https://www.citywest.ca/south.”
“We're in the first phase where they are just laying the cable along the side of the road. Klahoose is getting it from the road to the home at this moment,” said Tsakonas.
The work crew will continue burying fibre-optic cable along the route from Squirrel Cove to Seaford. Mansons Landing should come next, then Whaletown.
Local contractors should start coming up to houses in Squirrel Cove during the next few weeks.
“With any type of project, there's obviously going to be snafus. The total plan was to be four plus months, but we'll see what happens. Given our landscape here, you never know what may happen. You might get supply demands, you might have some problems with all the rock in certain areas and what have you. So it could take a few weeks longer,” said Tsakonas.
In a previous interview, Eric Geall, Operations Manager for West Connect Infrastructure (WCI) said Cortesians should receive high speed internet sometime between next summer and the end of 2023.
“He's been pretty vague obviously, but that two years - I'd be extremely surprised if that was the case,” said Tsakonas.
He added a reminder that people should pre-register at CityWest to receive two months free internet.
For further information:
Go to the CityWest website https://www.citywest.ca/south
phone: 1-800-442-8664
email [email protected]