Crystal clear: Ice Wireless and Iristel complete northern phone trials

IQALUIT - Ice Wireless and Iristel will begin rolling out a new satellite-based telephone and Internet network next summer in Canada’s north after concluding successful trials this week. The new network was first demonstrated October 31, 2012 in Iqaluit to members of the Northern Communications and Information Systems Working Group at a Canadian Department of National Defence meeting to discuss challenges with northern infrastructure. The trials were conducted using SES AMC-9, a 24 transponder C-band satellite whose footprint covers Nunavut and which is also capable of covering other rural and remote communities in Canada’s North. “This is the first time anyone...