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Indigenous economic reconciliation needs path toward spectrum sovereignty: experts

News | 09/30/2021 5:03 pm EDT
(Stock photo via Pxhere.)

While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from its recent 3500 MHz spectrum auction, Nunavut is still 100 per cent dependent on satellites for its telecommunications, posing challenges with respect to services that are not reliable, stable, secure, nor affordable. 

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