Rural and semi-rural BC have fibre whereas most of Vancouver doesn't; it's a quirk of circumstance, really. They replaced rural copper lines with fibre and just

Rural and semi-rural BC have fibre whereas most of Vancouver doesn't; it's a quirk of circumstance, really. They replaced rural copper lines with fibre and just went fibre to the door, whereas urban copper is resilient and competes with cable internet; and it's expensive to run fibre into appartment buildings after they've been built. Access availability in remote areas was mandated by the CRTC. I lived outside of Nanaimo and we had cable internet in 1996, before Quake was released! Much of the mainland didn't get cable until a little while later.