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by Scoundreller 931 days ago
The Katittuq Nunavut Fibre Link, labelled as 2025, had its tender cancelled this year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-cancels-tender-...

> Nunavut is the only province or territory in the country [Canada] without access to fibre internet. The project would bring fibre to both Iqaluit and nearby Kimmirut.

Right now, everything is over satellite. Too bad the big "internet cache" systems don't have sneakernet approaches to filling their caches. Unsure if their local ISP does any kind of caching. So every stream/download/update, etc. is its own "hit" over the downlink.

Thanks to Canada's terrible mobile telecom pricing and lacklustre competition, a cell phone with a dataplan in this territory is cost-competitive with the rest of the country...

https://www.qiniq.com/mobile/#plans

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The whole territory of Nunavut is under 40k habitants. It's totally fine to serve it with satellite. Also I don't see how any completion is possible, again, for a territory with under 40k habitants.