Canada desperately needs a national strategic internet constellation.

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Microwave towers? They don’t bridge enormous distances but can bypass areas that it would be inadvisable to lay cable

Terrestrial solutions for remote areas typically have excessive build out and maintenance costs.

Engineers will do a tradeoff and select the most suitable solution given the criteria. It’s very easy to underestimate costs, particularly over the entire lifetime of the system.

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And satellite consolations don’t. How are we launching them into space with our friends the Americans, Russia, China or India?

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