page_title: SSi Canada
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: SSi Canada / History
caption_attribution_description: Nunavut Community Map
context_page_description: SSi Canada is a Canadian wireless broadband internet service provider primarily serving remote areas that lack terrestrial service options. SSi was established in 1990 by Jeffrey Philipp and is headquartered in Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories. SSi is also a provider of Satellite Communication services, offered in locations that do not have terrestrial service options. They offer turnkey Internet systems to other ISPs. They have a local market serving all 25 communities in Nunavut and several in the Northwest Territories. These two territories account for 1/3 of Canada's landmass covering 3,439,296 km². They also have an international market including Africa, Indonesia and Kiribati.
  SSi Canada has used the Motorola Expedience line of product to deliver licensed broadband Internet services for many years, transmitted over a licensed spectrum of 2.5-2.6 GHz in Canada. The Expedience system consist of base stations that deliver a wireless signal throughout the community, and of residential subscriber units that are provided to customers, which receive the signal from the base stations. in 2016-17, SSi upgraded their network to 4G-LTE wireless and mobile technology.
context_section_description: SSi Canada (formerly known as SSi Micro) was founded in 1990 in Fort Providence. They provided businesses with a fully equipped sales, training and technical service centre along with computer sales and repairs. At this time SSi became the 13th division of a much larger group of companies operated by the Philipp family since 1965. This group of companies offered a vast range of services and employment opportunity in the community of Fort Providence, including the Snowshoe Inn, coffee shop and gift shop. For many years the company also operated the ferry that provided the only road access from southern Canada to the Northwest Territories prior to the opening of the Deh Cho Bridge.
  SSI Micro was one of the first Internet Service Providers (ISP's) in Northern Canada. They opened a branch in Yellowknife in 1995.
caption: SSi Canada's QINIQ network coverage Area. Providing All 25 Nunavut Communities with broadband Internet services.
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