Slow and spotty connections, prolonged outages, high prices and few options for service providers.
Those were some problems with northern internet that intervenors expressed to the Canadian telecommunications regulator at a hearing Monday on telecommunications in the North.
“It’s mostly the Indigenous people who don’t have [internet] services,” Brenda Norris, who directs an Indigenous family internet initiative for the Native Women’s Association of the NWT, told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
“There’s a certain unfairness in the fact that these communities are at least 15 years behind everyone else.”
The CRTC is holding hearings in Whitehorse through the week, exploring ways to improve internet
