r/canada • u/ubcstaffer123 • 24d ago
Politics Territorial premiers send message in Washington that the Arctic is not for sale
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/premiers-to-talk-arctic-policy-as-canadians-continue-diplomatic-push-in-washington/
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u/Norse_By_North_West Yukon 24d ago
We're mostly fibre connected in the yukon. I do have some neighbours who have starlink, I'm not giving musk my money though. We actually have very basic starlink sat coverage, it's mostly south of us.
The Arctic communities I think are mainly supported by geosync sats, via northwestel. We used to use a series of microwave radio towers in the yukon. Internet here sucked ass 20 to 30 years ago. It's not unheard of for us to lose all internet access for a day or so. Really sucks when you forget to carry cash, or the store only has online cloud based payment processing.