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Starting at 2:00 pm EST, the Kativik Regional Government hosted the official announcement of Industry Canada's National Satellite Initiative Round 1 allocation of the public benefit bandwidth satellite transponder space. The session was webcast using K-Net web streaming service.

 

Everyone is invited to watch the archived announcement by clicking here. (for the windows media version)

 

Mr. Guy St-Julien, MP for the region, made the announcement followed by a presentation by Johnny N. Adams, President of KRG. 

 

Keewaytinook Okimakanak joined the announcement live via video conference to demonstrate the values of sharing and partnerships in the development and utilization of this valuable resource to connect remote communities across Canada.

 

Jacques Drouin, Manager of Industry Canada's NSI  program was also in Kuujjuaq for this announcement and he was presented with a beautiful gift recognizing all his work with KRG.

 

On-line CBC news story available ... SMOOTHER SURFING FOR NUNAVIK RESIDENTS: Affordable high-speed internet service is coming to Nunavik...

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