The Globe and Mail has an article about bringing high-speed wireless Internet to far northern Inuit communities:

He [Itorcheak, Nunanet Communications] has been able to surf the Net from as much as 25 kilometres beyond where his servers are supposed to reach, convincing him it is only a matter of time before everyone in this massive, isolated land mass is connected. By January, the territory hopes to have high-speed availability in every community.

"We are already the most-wired society in the world," he says.

In a land where air travel is almost prohibitively expensive, he sees data transmission as one more potential resource for the Far North: meetings by video-conferencing, health care by video, family contact, weather information, tracking hunters and fishermen. . . .