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    The CRTC will publicly review the maximum price that Telesat can charge companies like Northwestel and SSI Micro for satellite connectivity in Nunavut, NWT, and Yukon. A CRTC-commissioned report found that satellite internet prices in these territories are higher than elsewhere in Canada. However, the Nunavut Broadband Development Corporation says lowering prices is not enough and will only support outdated technology and internet speeds, while other parts of the world improve significantly. They question how long satellite communities will have to make do with internet speeds below the national target of 5Mbps download and 1Mbps upload.

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    The CRTC will publicly review the maximum price that Telesat can charge companies like Northwestel and SSI Micro for satellite connectivity in Nunavut, NWT, and Yukon. A CRTC-commissioned report found that satellite internet prices in these territories are higher than elsewhere in Canada. However, the Nunavut Broadband Development Corporation says lowering prices is not enough and will only support outdated technology and internet speeds, while other parts of the world improve significantly. They question how long satellite communities will have to make do with internet speeds below the national target of 5Mbps download and 1Mbps upload.

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    CRTCtoreviewNunavut,N.W.T.

    ,Yukonsatelliteinternetpricing
    Nunavutgroupsaysnationaltargetforhigherinternetspeedsdoesn'tgofarenough
    ByGuyQuenneville,CBCNewsPosted:Apr14,201512:21PMCTLastUpdated:Apr14,20154:10PMCT
    TheCRTCsaysitwillpubliclyreviewthemaximumpricesatelliteoperatorTelesatcanchargecompaniessuchasNorthwestelandSSIMicroforsatelliteconnectivityinNunavutand
    partsoftheN.W.T.andYukon.
    Thedecisioncomesafterareportcommissionedbytheregulatorfoundthatpricesforfixedsatelliteservices(FSS)elsewhereinthecountryarewellbelowthetoppriceTelesatcan
    chargeinternetserviceprovidersforFSSintheterritories.
    "Howlongwillsatelliteservedcommunitieshavetomakedowiththatlevelofservicewhiletherestoftheworldimprovesbyleapsandbounds?"OanaSpinu,Nunavut
    BroadbandDevelopmentCorporation
    FSSiswhatSSIMicroandNorthwestelusetoprovideinternettoresidentialandbusinesscustomersinremotecommunitieswithoutafibreopticconnectioncommunitiessuchasOld
    Crow,YukonPaulatuk,N.W.T.,andallofNunavut.
    Thereportalsofoundthatinternetspeedsinthosecommunitiesareslowerthanthoseavailableinfibrecommunities,andthatTelesatwilllikelyremainthe"dominantprovider"ofsatellite
    servicesintheterritories"fortheforeseeablefuture."
    "Inlightoftheabove,thecommissionherebyinitiatesaproceedingtoreviewthe[fixedsatelliteservice]priceceiling,"theCRTCannouncedlastweek.

    Notgoodenough,saysonegroup
    ButtheNunavutBroadbandDevelopmentCorporationsaysthataloweringofthepriceceiling,whileprovidingshorttermrelief,stillwon'tgofarenough.
    "Loweringtheprice...isnotalongtermsolutiontotheNorth'stelecommunicationissues,"saysOanaSpinu,thecorporation'sexecutivedirector.
    "Itwouldonlysupportlegacytechnologymeetinganarguablyoutdatedtarget."
    TheoutdatedtargetSpinuisreferringtoisthenationwidetargetspeedestablishedin2011bytheCRTC:5megabitspersecond(Mbps
    )fordownloadingand1Mbpsforuploading.
    TheCRTCcommissionedreportfoundthatinternetspeedsinmostsatellitecommunitiesarebelowthattarget.
    "HowrelevantisthattargetnowwhentheCanadianhouseholdaverageis29.7Mbpsdownload,accordingtotheOoklaNetIndex,orwhentheFCChassettheirdefinitionofbroadband
    to25Mbps,orwhentheEUhasa30Mbpstargetfor100percentofEUcitizens?"saysSpinu.
    "Howlongwillsatelliteservedcommunitieshavetomakedowiththatlevelofservicewhiletherestoftheworldimprovesbyleapsandbounds?"
    Thisisn'tthefirsttimetheCRTChaslookedintowholesaleinternetserviceintheNorth.In2013theregulatororderedNorthwestelwhichownsmostofthefibreopticinfrastructure
    usedtodeliverinternetintheN.W.T.andtheYukontolowerthewholesaleinternetpricesitchargescompetinginternetserviceproviderssuchasSSIMicro.
    AspartofitsreviewofTelesat`spricing,theCRTCisinvitingthepublictosubmitcomments.ThosecommentsareduebyAug.21.

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