Eugene Tang (1:167/565) wrote to Steven Horn at 05:06 on 10 Mar 2003:

 ET> Being in the capital, wouldn't there have been highspeed internet
 ET> access set up for government use, and therefore, perhaps commercial
 ET> providers to get the most bang for the buck, out of the cost of
 ET> provisioning for that?

The first dedicated Internet connection from Whitehorse south in late 1994
was only a 56K connection funded by Canarie.  It is much bigger now, in
part because of the government's needs.  The government was also
instrumental in getting broadband to the rest of the territory.  However,
the telco does not hurt as a result of providing the pipe and the
connections to it and also gets to sell ADSL.

Having said that, private ISPs do sell both ADSL and dial-up connections in
the communities and will start selling ADSL in Whitehorse in the near
future.  As our cable modem connection has been in place for two years, we
do not hurt.

 ET> Hmm... I wonder if Iqualuit has DSL.

Not when I was there last July.  I'm not sure how much bandwidth the
government has but all that seemed to be available to the oprivate sector
was dial-up and slow at that.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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