Kinda like MicroSoft, NWTel is using its weight up here to stiffle innovation in the Arctic. Five years is a epoch in the development of the Internet. It is no closer now than it was three years ago. In fact it can be argued that it is further away. In fact, it seems to have simply disappeared from consciousness.
Nobody talks about it any more.
So that means that if the Health Centre is doing VTC, nobody else in Nunavut can use it. Northern Alaska, the Northslope Burough, has been able to provide Internet to all the schools and health centres in that isolated environment for over a decade. There's no longer a NWTel agent in Baker Lake. There's an epidemic of nuisance phone calls in all the Northern communities. NWTel continues to insist on simplex satellite links, when the rest of the world is using duplex.