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The 7.3M satellite earth station in Sioux Lookout is now pointing at Telesat's Anik F3 satellite. The re-positioning of the dish was successfully completed by Adi Linden and Terence Burnard early this morning.

After successfully setting up the equipment to receive the signal from this satellite, the crews in Muskrat Dam (lead by Jesse Fiddler), Slate Falls and Cat Lake (John Moreau and Lyle Johnson) and Eabametoong (Wayne Slipperjack and Jamie Ray) were able to successfully get these community satellite dishes realigned. Unfortunately, poor weather conditions prevented the crews from reaching two communities today (Sachigo Lake and Webequie).

Tomorrow the teams from K-Net will be travelling to the other partner First Nations to realign their dishes and get everyone back online as quickly as possible. Weather permitting, all these satellite served First Nations should be back online by Wednesday or Thursday.

Crews in Manitoba and Quebec are also travelling to their partner communities to get all the satellite dishes re-aligned to be able to be using the Anik F3 satellite.

Click here for pictures of this initiative.

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From CBC News online ...

Nunavik internet service goes offline for upgrades

November 19, 2007 - A number of internet users in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec are without service Monday, as the regional government realigns satellite dishes in those communities.

Officials with the Kativik regional government, based in Kuujjuaq, say the service interruption will last one to three days. Service was restored in Kuujjuaq on Monday afternoon.

The outage has affected all internet services in the area, including e-mail access.

In August, Nunavik received a share of $20.65 million from the federal government, as well as $2.2 million from the province, to buy new satellite infrastructure and boost internet bandwidth for the region.

Internet customers in Nunavik should notice an improvement in their broadband service in the new year.