Friday, November 14, 2008

Internet Access in the Far North The Internet in Canada's far nortth. Using the Web to buy a carton of milk in Nunavut. Satellite Internet in Nunavut (Canada's newest territory - the White Stripes played there) is slow and has such draconian bandwidth caps (2GB a month) that nobody downloads audio or video. But they use it for every kind of online banking and E-commerce in a territory with barely any retail stores. Revel in the irony of listening to a podcast interview (regular Web page with links to high- and low-bandwidth MP3) that Nunavummiut could barely justify downloading. (That's where the carton of milk is mentioned.) [MetaFilter] 6:38:11 AM