A Native-owned company in Manitoba, Canada, is working to improve phone and Internet service for First Nations in the rural north.
Nations Sphere will buy extra telecommunications bandwidth from Manitoba Hydro and then sell it to remote communities.
Residents on northern First Nations reserves say their phone and Internet dial-up service is unreliable.
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Friday, March 5, 2004
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