Why Would Your Community want to Join NanoFibre?

One of the problems here in the Columbia Valley, as well as across Canada, is the slow or nonexistent roll out of advanced telecommunications services. Everyone can access the Internet with a dial up modem and Invermere, Radium and Fairmont have cable and DSL options. Some folks in remote areas are using satellite and wireless technologies, but none of these technologies have the capacity to support the high speed, reliable, bi-directional transmission of digital information that is necessary for people to use the truly advanced services.

NanoFibre believes the solution to this problem is building an open access 100% fibre to the home (FTTH) network. We have designed, financed, built and will operate and maintain the fibre network and make it available to anyone who can successfully deliver digital services like the telephone, television, and Internet as well as the advanced services like telemedicine, interactive videophone, real time work collaboration from different locations, full motion interactive distance learning, and other services that have yet to be invented. We believe that a successful FTTH network will provide tremendous economic development advantages and also give Columbia Valley citizens access to a world of new services that will enrich their lives. The door is open for other areas to connect as we are making our network services available to any community who wants to join. If you are curious about this possibility for your area, perhaps it will help to consider the following answers to the question; Why should your area want to become part of NanoFibre?

  1. Services are better
    Fibre optic networks can deliver more services with higher quality. Fibre can deliver multiple high definition TV channels (without picture quality degradation), telephone service that is crystal clear and much faster, symmetrical data transfer (i.e. same speed up and down). Telephone networks cannot deliver HDTV signals and both telephone and cable network speeds are reduced by about 75% when uploading.

  2. Prices will be cheaper
    The fibre optic network being built by NanoFibre in the Columbia Valley is "open access" which means any company can offer services, and they all compete with one another. Even Telus and Shaw are welcome to offer their services on the NanoFibre network and compete with the other Service Providers. With open competition, consumers win. “Triple Play” services (TV, phone and internet) will be about $20-$25/month less on the NanoFibre network. $25/month for the rest of your life is a lot of money.

  3. Security is better 
    There is no more secure method of transferring data electronically than a fibre optic network. With the growing trend of “identity theft”, this is a concern for all.

  4. One cable does it all 
    Shaw and Telus both want to put unique, competing cables into your home and neither offer each other’s services. NanoFibre can offer any Service Provider's services on their fibre optic cable. It doesn't make sense to have a different airport for every airline, why have different wires for each service?

  5. The NanoFibre network is completely automated
    if you want to change or add a service, it takes less than a minute.

  6. Service not Shared
    Cable service is shared, when your neighbors are using their connection, yours slows down. Each home connected to the NanoFibre network has it's own individual fibre, so what your neighbors do, doesn't impact you. Remember the old party telephone lines where everyone shared a circuit? Cable connections are just like party lines.

  7. Fibre is limitless
    The existing telecommunications infrastructure was designed and built to serve very limited and much less demanding applications. The technology does not have the capacity to carry the volume of information that advanced services like video on demand or interactive videophone require. The NanoFibre network does not have these limitations.

  8. The world communicates differently now
    The way in which we communicate with each other has changed dramatically. Kids making their own movies and transferring them to grandparents around the world in seconds couldn't be imagined a few decades ago. Why continue to use telephone and cable networks that cannot keep up with the pace of innovation?

  9. Increased economic development options
    A fibre network in a rural area is an excellent option for distributing education and telemedicine applications and it offers more employment alternatives than tourism and construction. There is a compelling argument for making investments in telecommunications infrastructure to promote economic development. Scholars have discovered that access to high capacity networks is just as important for the economic future of an area as proximity to rivers, harbors, rail lines, and highways have been in times past. The communities that have reasonably priced, reliable, high-speed connections will be preferred, other things being equal, over communities that cannot.

  10. Fibre increases the value of your home
    According to recent US statistics, a fibre optic connection in your home adds between $3,800 - $4,500 of increased value. It will be the easiest and most cost effective renovation you ever did!