 SnickerdoPremium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON | reply to ChrisXP
Re: Good luck by 2005 There really is a place in Africa called Timbuktu, so when you mentioned that about Canada I assumed you meant Tuktoyaktuk since they could be mistaken for one another. Valid explaination and I do apologise for the other comments since I took your comment out of context to begin with. No hard feelings I hope.
Needless to say, broadband WILL happen in the north, just like telephones are there right now. It's a matter of including an internet connection on that same satellite and then using point-to-moint DSL modems for anyone who wants the service. As you said, I'm sure most people in the arctic couldn't care less about broadband, but it will at least be available to them if they want it. It is already available to every 'community' in the Yukon. I use the term community, because the feds have an actual definition of what a community is. Mind you, the Yukon has a LOT of fiber running along the pipelines leading into Alaska so providing broadband there isn't as big of an issue as it is to a place that requires satellite access. As I said previously, a house (or in this case, igloo) that already doesn't have any wireline telephone service isn't going to be getting broadband internet service anytime soon. These aren't a 'community' by definition. One can say the same thing about homes in the middle of nowhere in Northern Ontario or Northern Quebec.
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