digital divide – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:04:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 The Arctic’s Internet Is So Expensive That People Mail the Web on USB Drives — Via Motherboard https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/06/the-arctics-internet-is-so-expensive-that-people-mail-the-web-on-usb-drives-via-motherboard Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:53:32 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=14597 Unknown

“Canada’s domestic digital divide, with the North as its epicenter, has been a point of growing concern over the last several years. Much of the internet in the northernmost regions of the country is still beamed down by satellites, but a plan to link Europe and Asia with fiber optic cable via Nunavut is currently being negotiated by a Toronto-based company called Arctic Fibre.”

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