It is a very special part of Ontario with the lowlands and coast line providing homes for polar bears and whales. The community of Fort Severn. The coastline at the mouth of the Severn River. The lowlands near the shore of the Hudson Bay. The present telecommunication service for Fort Severn is provided through an agreement between Bell Canada and Telesat.
Telecommunications presently consists of a digital satellite voice network serving the community.
Keewaytinook Okimakanak's K-Net staff are working with Bell Canada and FedNor to initiate a pilot project involving establishing a dedicated data service using the existing infrastructure. In 1997, Industry Canada's First Nations Schoolnet Program provided a DirecPC unit and computer to assist all the First Nation schools to get connected to the Internet. At that time, the maximum baud rate out of Fort Severn was 300bps and any connection to the Internet required an expensive long distance call. Working with the Schoolnet Program and K-Net Services, Fort Severn received their first MSAT unit in January 1998. The school computers were networked to the proxy server so all the units could access the Internet.