High-Speed Internet Demand Growing

The demand for high-speed internet continues to grow in Dryden.
Currently, Dryden Telephone has about 560 DSL customers and even more want to go online.
However, telephone manager Ivan Probizanski says the original high-speed equipment purchased from Nortel is no longer being made and that poses a problem for further expansion.
He adds the cost of a new 600-port high-speed internet unit is just over 240-thousand dollars.
Given the number of DSL customers the city has, he says it would take less than a year to recover the costs of the new unit.
City council approved the expenditure this week.