The CRTC's or federal government's subsidies for rolling out fibre “transport” infrastructure in Canada’s northern territories would be a long-term solution to the high cost of connecting the North’s Internet, voice and mobile signals to the rest of Canada, Geoff Batstone, legal counsel for Arctic Fibre Inc., told a panel of CRTC commissioners.

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