The Northern View, August 15, 2012

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◆ Northwest jobless rate the

highest in the province... PAGE 3

◆ Students donate cruise tour

funds to Wildlife Shelter... PAGE 11

◆ Sten Sundin wins the 2012 Junior Jubilee... PAGE 19 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012 Proudly serving the North Coast - The eNVy of the North www.thenorthernview.com 250-624-8088 VOL. 7 NO. 33

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Sport & Cycle

Lots Of New Arrivals

For Back To School

Martina Perry photo

The 2012 Udderfest was held in Prince Rupert last week. The yearly fringe drama festival gives local thespians of all experience and skill levels a chance to get themselves or their plays on stage. Pictured: an unsuspecting Lee Brain is devoured by a zombie (Cliff Doupe) in the play Zenbridge after mistaking the creature’s demand for “brains” as it identifying him. For more from Udderfest, see pages 8 and 9.

◆ IMPROVING INTERNET

GwaiiTel to build new tower on Mt. Hays By Alan S. Hale The Northern View

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Haida Gwaii-based telecommunications company, GwaiiTel, is planning to build a new broadcasting tower on Mount Hays with assistance from Prince Rupert’s CityWest. The new 30-metre tower will be replacing the existing towers already on Mount Hays, with the broadcasting equipment being moved over to the newer and taller tower. Once that

is done the existing towers will be torn down. The main purpose of building the new broadcasting tower on the mountain is to increase Internet capacity over the radio link to Masset on Haida Gwaii, thereby improving the often dismal connection speeds that plague Internet users on the islands. “These days Internet means any number of applications like Internet phone or television that are only really available to people with enough bandwidth.,”

explained GwaiiTel’s administrator, Paul Daniell. “The main problem with Internet on Haida Gwaii is capacity. Telus isn’t able to provide it and they’re the only people with that capacity. So consequently we are going to build this radio link.” The small local Internet provider has accused the telecom giant, Telus, of unfair competition in the past.

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