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Canada Featured • Zone 3 General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Western Arctic hamlet left without reliable internet for 8 days, worst residents have seen

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11:31
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Residents of Ulukhaktok, a small Inuit community in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), say they’ve never experienced anything like this before —

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Business Business (Canada) Canada RCI 

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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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canadian eastern Arctic: Nunavut-Greenland fibre cable to cost $80M more than planned

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 10:43
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The GN’s plan to boost internet in the Qikiqtaaluk region, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, through an undersea fibre link between

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Business (Canada) Canada 

Northwestel looking to build fibre line under Great Slave Lake in Northern Canada

Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 13:43
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Northwestel Inc. is looking to build a fibre line under Great Slave Lake, following several telecommunication outages that left Yellowknife

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

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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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

Company aims to give the Arctic ‘fibre-like’ internet through satellites

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 11:24 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 11:18
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A UK-based telecommunications company is planning to launch hundreds of satellites in an effort to provide worldwide broadband internet service,

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

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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General Norway Politics (Norway) Science 

New satellites to boost communications in Arctic Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 09:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 09:51
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The Nordic country cooperates with the U.S and other allies over the development of a new broadband communication network in

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Business Business (USA) General USA 

Alaska’s first wireless 5G network to be built in Anchorage

Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 12:00
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The state’s largest telecommunications company announced it’s building the first 5G wireless network in the state’s largest city. GCI will

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Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Major step towards a Europe-Asia Arctic cable link

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 13:54 — Last Updated: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 14:37
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Japanese and Nordic partners team up with Russia’s telecom giant MegaFon taking the proposed Arctic fiber optic project a major

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General News 

Telecom company serving Northern Canada accuses competitor of blocking calls

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 15:01 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 15:16
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The CEO and president of Ice Wireless is claiming Telus (a large telecom company based in southwestern Canada) has been

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Politics Politics (USA) USA 

New U.S. Arctic emissary gets plenty of ideas from Alaskans for Arctic Council priorities

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 15, 2014 at 09:58
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The newly appointed U.S. special Arctic representative, former Coast Guard Commandant Robert Papp, has issued a call for ideas about

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Residents of Finland pay more for almost all goods and services than the EU average.( Hanne Kinnunen / Yle )
Business Finland 

Finland prices higher than EU average

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 13:16
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An international study comparing consumer prices among 37 Europeans countries has concluded that price levels in Finland are nearly a

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