{"id":14597,"date":"2015-06-02T07:53:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14597"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:04:56","slug":"the-arctics-internet-is-so-expensive-that-people-mail-the-web-on-usb-drives-via-motherboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-arctics-internet-is-so-expensive-that-people-mail-the-web-on-usb-drives-via-motherboard","title":{"rendered":"The Arctic\u2019s Internet Is So Expensive That People Mail the Web on USB Drives \u2014 Via Motherboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Unknown1.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada\u2019s domestic <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/rural-broadband-in-canada-is-about-to-get-worse\"><span class=\"s2\">digital divide<\/span><\/a>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/pm.gc.ca\/eng\/news\/2014\/08\/25\/pm-announces-important-investment-boost-high-speed-internet-nunavut-and-nunavik\"><span class=\"s2\">satellites<\/span><\/a>, but a plan to link Europe and Asia with <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/telecom\/internet\/arctic-fibre-project-to-link-japan-and-uk\"><span class=\"s2\">fiber optic cable<\/span><\/a> via Nunavut is currently being negotiated by a Toronto-based company called <a href=\"http:\/\/arcticfibre.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Arctic Fibre<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-arctics-internet-is-so-expensive-that-people-mail-the-web-on-usb-drives\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCanada\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,39,45,1759,77,31,1760],"tags":[1869,1870,1871,1872,2159,1868,1873],"class_list":["post-14597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-economics","category-finance","category-governance","category-hacking","category-policy","category-strategy","tag-arctic","tag-broadband","tag-digital-divide","tag-fiber-optics","tag-internet","tag-satellites","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51531,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions\/51531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}