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::Dial-up internet is available in virtually all Nunavut and NWT communities; the only ones lacking it lost their incumbent ISPs within the last two years. Iqaluit has had ADSL since about 2004 or 2005, and wireless high speed has been introduced to most communities in Nunavut; satellite high speed (direct to home) has been introduced to many southwestern NWT communities. [[User:Gcapp1959|GBC]] 22:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
::I'm not sure if there is any dial-up left in any Nunavut community outside of Iqaluit now. As far as I know all the ISPs shut down the dial-up after they converted to the [http://www.qiniq.com/ Qiniq network] with the help of the [http://www.nunavut-broadband.ca/ Nunavut Broadband Development Corporation]. And that, they claim, is available throughout [http://www.qiniq.com/?page_id=7 Nunavut], they also say that your modem can be taken anywhere in Nunavut and it will work. Where it's available the Netkaster is cheaper and faster. Even one of the land claim organizations that was part of setting up our local ISP has gone over to the 2-way satellite internet. [[User:CambridgeBayWeather|CambridgeBayWeather]] [[User_talk:CambridgeBayWeather|(Talk)]] 10:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
::I would suggest that the value of discussing telecom in Edmonton's or Victoria's articles may not actually be equivalent to the value of discussing that stuff here; most people don't really have the same kind of misconceptions and stereotypes about Edmonton's or Victoria's access to modern telecommunications technology that they do about Iqaluit's. I really don't think it would come as a ''surprise'' to anybody that Edmonton has Internet and cel phone service, but unfortunately, it still ''would'' come as a surprise to some people that ''Iqaluit'' does. Wikipedia does have to at least take into consideration sometimes that our readers may not always have the background knowledge that ''we'' might consider so obvious. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] 01:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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