“It might not sound like much, but if you’re trying to make a phone call or send a file, or even if you’re standing in line at the grocery store to pay for your stuff, well, you just can’t,” says Wells, the government’s chief information officer. ![]() Internet connectivity for the territory’s government, and most of its economy, for that matter, is beamed via a single geostationary satellite locked in place 36,000 kilometres above the Earth, and over the course of several days twice a year, the angle of the sun overwhelms the satellite’s signal with thermal energy, shutting down communications for up to 12 minutes at a time. ![]() Log In Create Free AccountĮvery spring and fall, Dean Wells has the job of telling Nunavut government employees the precise date and time they’ll be hurled back into the telecommunications dark ages.
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