If broadband is essential, so is its funding: KRG to CRTC – Nunatsiaq News
July 22, 2015
“Those most affected by the lack of quality telecommunications are often Aboriginal groups”
The Kativik Regional Government has urged Canada’s telecommunications agency to consider a way in which infrastructure used to deploy broadband internet could rely on long-term funding — particularly in Canada’s North.
The KRG, which oversees Tamaani, one of Nunavik’s major internet providers, says the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) should review the role of broadband internet as an essential service, given there’s no guarantee of adequate funding.
