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CRTC’s Universal Service Objective must include improved backbone transport, open gateway facilities: SSi

YELLOWKNIFE – Count SSi Micro amongst those stakeholders throwing their support behind the CRTC’s recent #TalkBroadband decision designating broadband access as a basic telecommunications service.SSi, which has deployed satellite and local broadband wireless facilities throughout Nunavut and in communities of the Northwest Territories, said that it agrees with the Commission that a national broadband strategy must include participation from stakeholders that include the CRTC, the private sector, and various levels of government, including First Nations and Inuit organizations.“We believe broadband is the new basic telecommunications service, and appreciate the Commission’s (Universal Service Objective) framework embracing that reality,” said SSi chief development officer...