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Satellite service restored after outage

telecom | 10/03/2016 8:09 pm EDT

Telecom services affected by a satellite outage in have been restored after an “anomaly” powered down communications Sunday night. Ottawa-based Telesat Holdings Inc., which operates the affected Anik F2 satellite, said in a press release early Monday afternoon that “the satellite is performing normally and all of its subsystems appear healthy” after the “highly unusual” incident. Since Sunday, communication services — including wireless and Internet — on the satellite were downed by the outage. John Flaherty, Telesat’s...