[Advisors] Fwd: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Small Iqaluit company creates internet alternative f

[Gareth Shearman]

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> From: media at web.net
> Date: August 14, 2013 11:53:46 PM PDT
> To: "Nunavut Cap Sites" <nunavut-cap-sites at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Small Iqaluit company creates internet alternative f
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> Small Iqaluit company creates internet alternative for Nunavut Research
> Institute
> Coman Communications tests wireless internet at NRI
> [excerpt]
> Students and researchers at the Nunavut Research Institute will
> communicate through an alternate wireless internet system supplied by
> Coman Communications of Iqaluit and Juch-Tech Inc. of Hamilton, Ont.
> 
> And it’s one of the few internet services in the Canadian Arctic that does
> not involve Telesat Canada, the country’s dominant satellite firm.
> 
> Instead, the two firms are using free satellite space donated by a
> European firm called SES, with hardware supplied by two other companies,
> NovelSat and XipLink of Montreal.
> 
> Earlier this year, Coman Communications and Juch-Tech offered free
> wireless hotspots at locations around Iqaluit that included the Northmart
> store and Nunavut Arctic College
> 
> More
> http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674small_iqaluit_company_creates_internet_alternative_for_research_instit/
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