Despite Canada-China tensions, Huawei announces plan to bring internet to remote Arctic communities

Some 20 Arctic communities and 70 more in rural Quebec are set to get 4G internet under the plan.

By Steve Scherer, Reuters July 24, 2019
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OTTAWA — Even as tensions between China and Canada have grown, following the arrest of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, the company announced Monday a partnership with two Canadian companies to furnish high-speed 4G internet to isolated communities in Canada’s Far North.

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