Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The issue we have around the Digital Communications Network revolves around bandwidth. Bandwidth is not equal in all communities. It is at different rates depending upon the equipment that NorthwesTel has in place. The bandwidth ranges from 64 kilobytes to over 1,000 kilobytes. It varies by community. Different applications require different bandwidth. For instance, our Telehealth application requires 384 kilobytes in order to work. Two thirds of the communities in the Territories do not have sufficient bandwidth for the Telehealth application to work. In the other communities that is not the case. For us, there is an issue to distribute Telehealth services across the entire Territory, given that there are technical limitations to how much electronic traffic the DCN will currently handle. Thank you.
Mr. St. Germaine on Inuvik Hospital
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Inuvik Hospital
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 21st, 2000
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St. Germaine
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