No #internet, no #phone: #Canada #wildfires expose fragility of rural #infrastructure
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/internet-access-rural-canada-wildfires
Northwestel, which provides telecommunications for the #Yukon, Northwest Territories, #Nunavut and northern #BritishColumbia announced on Friday that a wildfire had damaged a critical fibre optic cable near the town of #FortNelson. The company said it had also lost its redundancy cable due to a separate wildfire burning near Jean Marie River and #Kakisa in the Northwest Territories.
