[LINK] "Remote B.C. town living life without Internet after provider shuts down"

[rfmcdonald]

Tamsyn Burgmann's Canadian Press article was republished in the Vancouver Sun, describing the troubles of a British Columbia town cut off from the Internet.

In an age when quality of life includes being connected to the Internet, residents of a British Columbia town say they've gone back 20 years after service was cut off indefinitely.

"It's the same as going from the car to the horse. We should be going forward, not backward," said Mayor Galina Durant, of the District of Stewart.

"To stay without Internet — it's like you cut a line of life," she said Tuesday.

The town of 500 people in northwestern B.C. was plunged into the past a day earlier, when a non-profit society that had served much of the community's Internet needs shut down after two decades.

The mayor and council were notified of the impending blackout, but their selected replacement couldn't meet a deadline before the OneWayOut.net Society withdrew service.