 ChrisXPUnited We Stand, Divided We FallPremium
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USA | reply to Robert
Re: Good luck by 2005 said by Robert:
I spent 24 years in Labrador, my brother is currently on Baffin Island. He has broadband 24/7, 365 days a year. He may not get 1.5 Mbit service like the majority, but he consistently gets higher than 640, and the majority of the inuit do not want internet, because they do not care for it.
The Inuit that reside in Resolute came from Labrador (no native Inuit inhabited that region as it's too brutal for them to live there). They were "relocated" in the region as Canada's grand experiment to colonize the region. It was brutal, on the level of the US "Trail of Tears".
They want cheaper food, better heating and jobs -- not much of a market in carvings (even though they're beautiful pieces of art I'd love to own myself, but alas, the PETA nuts keep me from getting it -- different regions will add skins and teeth of animals that the PETA nuts had banned. So it limits their livihood as the US market is out for traditional artwork).
Broadband just isn't a priority.
CXP
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