Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has launched a group of satellites which will facilitate its direct-to-cell services, it was announced Wednesday. The Falcon 9 rocket carried Starlink satellites which will allow several companies around the world to connect to...
Telesat Holdings Inc. announced Monday that it has signed a deal with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) for multiple launches of satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The Canadian carrier will send up to 18 satellites per launch, over a total of 14 launches....
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
Players in the low-earth orbit satellite (LEOs) space are casting doubt...
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
The federal government announced Friday it is repurposing the 3800 MHz spectrum band to support 5G services, with an auction to take place in early 2023. The department of Innovation, Science and...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal to auction off spectrum it holds in the 3700-3900 MHz band, the company won't be able to compete with its competitors in the United States, the company's CEO told the...
Telesat Holdings Inc. announced a new agreement with satellite communications technology developer SatixFy Israel Ltd. Wednesday morning, as Telesat moves towards launching its Lightspeed satellite...
Telesat Holdings Inc. announced today that the company will partner with French-Italian company Thales Alenia Space for the manufacture of post of its low-earth orbit satellite (LEOS) constellation,...
While much of the conversation about rural broadband in Canada has recently centered on low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, the business is a very expensive one, with huge capital costs and...
A corporate restructuring that will see Telesat Holdings Inc. go public and...
Telesat Holdings Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) both said Tuesday they plan to provide broadband connectivity to remote and rural areas of Canada seven years ahead of the...
The $2 billion Canadian Infrastructure Bank rural broadband fund will seek...
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
The federal government announced the launch of its long-awaited Universal Broadband Fund Monday morning,...
An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to create a multilingual news channel to help Canadians access health information says it’s too early...
A reported bid by Ottawa-headquartered satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. to acquire competitor OneWeb has been unsuccessful, with a consortium including the U.K. government and Indian...
Satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. has named Andrew Browne as its new chief financial officer on Thursday, following the retirement of Michel Cayouette. ...
Despite being “impressed” by the competitive presence of...
A week after Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced an $85-million investment and a memorandum of understanding that tips as much as $600 million in federal government investments over the next...
OTTAWA — As part of its strategy to tackle rural broadband in Canada, the Liberal government today announced its first spending commitment to a project that will use low earth orbit satellites to connect Canada’s most remote areas -- an approach to rural broadband that...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a request by Canadian satellite operator Kepler...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel says it will begin providing internet service at speeds three times as fast as...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
Three years after a number of big companies first announced they would...
Telesat Holdings Inc. said Monday that the launch of its new Telstar 19...
Ottawa-based Telesat Holdings Inc. announced the loss of the first in an initial constellation of low...
Telesat Holdings Inc. will be allowed to offer internet service based on...
Twenty-five Nunavut communities are the targeted beneficiaries of the latest round of Connect to Innovate...
Applications for non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) systems will be accepted again as of June 26, following the release of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada’s new framework for licensing the low-earth orbit systems. In a decision posted online Monday, the department said it was “implementing changes that streamline the licensing process, resulting in more satellite systems being approved faster before they enter the market.” The changes follow a nearly year-long moratorium on licensing for NGSO spectrum and a public consultation, where domestic and foreign satellite companies squared off, with the former arguing for a level playing field and the latter asking for less cumbersome licensing requirements. Among the new rules ISED settled on include not having limits on the number of licences...
Canadian satellite companies are asking Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to ensure a level playing field with their international competition when it comes to the licensing...
TORONTO — A panel of Federal Court of Appeal justices dismissed an application from former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan challenging the authority of chairman Jean-Pierre Blais to name commissioners to panels. Following a...
As-yet-unlaunched satellites will make more Internet capacity available at a lower cost in rural and remote areas, satellite providers told the CRTC Wednesday, on the third day of its three-week...
Commissioner Raj Shoan has brought another case against the CRTC to court, asking the Federal Court of Appeal to limit the ability of the CRTC chairman to assign commissioners to panels that make...
SSi Micro Ltd. announced Wednesday it is investing $75 million toward providing and improving Nunavut’s broadband infrastructure. It said in a press release that the investment will soon benefit consumers, business, the education system, health-care providers and government. SSi added that $35 million will be contributed by the federal government to connect 8,600 homes throughout all 25 communities in Nunavut, as part of the Connecting Canadians Program. SSi noted that it will also be partnering with Canadian satellite operator, Telesat Holdings Inc., through a multi-year...
The CRTC has launched a public consultation to review a price ceiling on some services provided by satellite operator Telesat Holdings Inc. In a press release, the regulator said commissioner Candice Molnar had, in a report...
Canadian satellite operator Telesat Holdings Inc. reported Thursday that it saw higher revenue and lower losses in the first quarter compared to a year earlier. The company said in a press release that revenue was up 11 per cent...