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Yukon’s 12-hour internet outage added challenges for emergency officials

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 16:06
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Alaska Highway fibre line damaged Wednesday is Yukon’s only such connection to the South Yukon emergency officials say a 12-hour disruption

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Unlimited internet to come to seven Northern Canadian communities by Nov. 1

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2020 at 15:48
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The North’s largest telecommunications provider says unlimited internet is coming to seven communities on Nov. 1, according to a press

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Arctic Canada’s senator blasts telecom national giant for holding near monopoly

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 24, 2020 at 12:59 — Last Updated: Monday, August 24, 2020 at 15:53
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Nunavut Senator Dennis Patterson is criticizing Northwestel for not sharing its broadband internet network. The federal government gave the Bell-owned company almost $50 million

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Canadian Telecom businesses say recent federal funding solidifies Northwestel monopoly

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2020 at 13:34
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Smaller players in the Northwest Territories’ telecom industry say the money given to Northwestel to help improve internet speeds only

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Canada announces $72M in broadband internet improvements for northern communities

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 16:35
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Five northern community broadband projects in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and northern Manitoba will share in $72 million of Canadian

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Company completes 1st overland fibre-optic cable connecting Alaska to continental U.S.

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 11:39
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An Alaska company has completed construction of the first overland fibre-optic cable connecting the state to the continental U.S. The

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Non-profit to set up local, community-run internet service provider in Arctic Canada

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 16:55 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 08:57
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The days of the internet monopoly in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., in Arctic Canada, are numbered. A $20,000 investment by a non-profit

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Internet now same speed across Canada’s Nunavut territory

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 14:23
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Northwestel announced at the Nunavut Trade Show that all 25 of the territory’s communities are now connected with the same

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Canada’s telecom regulator asks Northwestel to detail outages across the North

Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 14:23 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 15:36
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Northwestel has been forced to explain some of the outages northern communities have endured over the last year. The Canadian

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Northern Canada: Telecom outages cost Yellowknife economy $10M, chamber says

Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 10:16 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 12:30
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Two telecommunications outages in Yellowknife, Northern Canada over the summer have cost the local economy close to $10 million, estimates

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Police continue investigation into fibre line cut in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Laura Busch, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 16:37 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 16:41
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RCMP, Canada’s federal police, are asking for the public’s help as they investigate two incidents of suspected vandalism that disrupted

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From wolves to ‘idiots’ with backhoes, threats to fibre lines in Northern Canada are many

Randi Beers, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 09:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 15:51
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Residents of Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, are learning how fragile their internet connection can be after suffering two major

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Canada’s northwestern territory to be Alaska’s new gateway to fast broadband

Mike Rudyk, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 14:59
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Northwestel is building a new fibre optic line from Haines Junction to Beaver Creek, in Canada’s Yukon territory. It should

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Optic fibre cable in Arctic Canada was cut in ‘rare’ weekend telecom outage, says Northwestel

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 09:38 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 12:12
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Northwestel says a major communications disruption in the Yellowknife area, northwestern Canada, over the weekend resulted from a severed fibre

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Community in Arctic Canada frustrated by months-long internet and cell service issues

Priscilla Hwang, CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 8, 2019 at 15:50
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After what residents describe as months of spotty internet and cell services in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic,

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