Several southwest communities are now getting faster high speed internet from SaskTel.

The Crown Corporation announced today that 79 more communities across the province had their maximum download speeds bumped to 5 megabits per second, from the previous 1.5mbps.  The southwest communities receiving the upgrade this time around are Beechy, Cabri, Eastend, Herbert, Morse, Leader, Lucky Lake, Kincaid, and Tompkins.

SaskTel is planning to upgrade download speeds in 210 communities this year and, so far, upgrades have been made in 90 of them.