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Posted by: ITNovaScotia Admin	Tuesday, January 02, 2007
By Kirk Starratt, Transcontinental Media The executive director of the Kings Community Economic Development Agency (Kings CED) says despite a couple of minor setbacks that affected the project timeline, the Valley Community Fibre Network (VCFN) is on the cusp of fruition. Erin Beaudin said they anticipated that the fibre optic cable network would be constructed by the fall of 2006, but there was a delay due to cost overruns and budgetary issues and they weren’t in a position to move forward. The make-ready work and construction costs were first projected in 2004 as part of their business plan and turned out to be inaccurate, partially due to inflation... See the full story at Nova Scotia Business Journal

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Re: Fibre optic network nears fruition

By Craig Hubley on Wednesday, May 07, 2008

What other areas of Nova Scotia have the foresight to deploy such networks? Without them there simply won't be any information-intensive industry activity, no long term educational opportunities, no economy but natural resources and tourism, in 15 years. They're a pre-requisite to be involved in the global economy at all. Not to mention increasingly critical in health care. It's not a fad that fibre optic networks between hospitals and clinics are a high priority everywhere with an aging population.