January 9th, 2012 - The transmission from Nakusp to Trout Lake, and repeater points in-between, was at full throttle paving the way for customers to sign up for service.
February 8th - Careful and constant monitoring of the system is proving that all equipment is running smoothly and without capacity issues.
April/May - Equipment for the Galena Bay and Beaton subscribers will be arriving within the next 6 weeks. When access to the installation sites is attainable, work will begin to bring these customers online.
May 23rd - May 27th - Beaton repeater station is setup and equipment installed.
June 9th - Galena Bay site comes online.
July 1st - Beaton site comes online.
May thru August - Many seasonal subscribers sign up for Internet service. Nearly 65 clients have been connected.
September thru October - All repeater sites are inspected in preparation for the winter. Numerous maintenance trips to the outlying sites were completed.
October thru December - Unforeseen, and many unrelated, power outages affecting the Internet service were addressed.
November - Telus begins installation of fibre optic cable for the high-speed Internet connection to Trout Lake. The TLBCIS hub prep work for the Telus connection is completed.
December 20th - Telus hook-up to Trout Lake is completed.
December 23rd - TLBCIS connection to Telus fibre optic is completed. Nakusp site is taken out of commission.
