Industry committee  Our system is actually architected quite differently than SpaceX's is. We are not envisioning launching thousands of satellites. We've architected our system, and I should note that we have a patent pending on this hybrid orbit topography that our colleagues have developed. We'

Industry committee  For that particular contract, yes. It doesn't kick in until the LEO constellation is in service. We've said to the government that there are things we can do now; there are things we can do in the interim to improve connectivity across Canada, and then bridge those communities

Industry committee  Can I comment on that? That's right. As my colleague described, what we believe to be the case is that the major bottleneck to driving down connectivity costs across Canada is that pipe that comes into these remote communities, and we're going to disrupt the economics with that

Industry committee  We're providing service throughout Quebec today. We need to do a lot more to drive the price down, which is why we're investing billions of dollars in our LEO constellation, but we're able to serve all of Quebec today. As I mentioned, we have incremental capacity and we can impro

Industry committee  The way the commitment works is that we are providing a pool of this very high throughput low-earth orbit satellite capacity, 140 gigabits. It's more capacity available for Canadian remote communities than exists on all the satellites combined, serving Canada today. The federal

Industry committee  We all need to be very cognizant about where we're orbiting our satellites. We've been doing this for 50 years in geostationary orbit. It's something that we all ought to be conscious of, not only just the physical limitations of where these satellites go, but also making use of

Industry committee  We're all working hard on it.

Industry committee  I think the costs are going to come down significantly. As I mentioned, our model is a little different. We're going to be delivering gigabits of capacity to remote communities throughout Canada, and then our partners, ISPs, mobile network operators, indigenous bands and the like

Industry committee  Ultimately it's going to be up to our customers to define it. It's hard for me to say. It's going to be offered by Bell. It will be offered by different municipalities and the like. I know what we're going to be providing them that service for. Beyond that, I can't say exactly

Industry committee  Listen. Right now we're providing broadband connectivity services across all of Canada, and we've been doing that for a long time. We have more capacity and ability to expand services in almost all the communities we're serving today. We're working with government at the federal

Industry committee  Telesat has been in business and providing services around the world for about 50 years, and our model, as Ms. Cooper highlighted, is a little bit different. We're not providing a direct-to-consumer solution. We're working as we have for decades with telephone companies, ISPs, mu

Industry committee  Merci. Good morning, one and all. Madam Chair, thank you for inviting Telesat to participate today. I’m Dan Goldberg, CEO of Telesat. I’m here this morning, as you said, with my colleagues Michele Beck and Stephen Hampton. Operating for over 50 years, with our headquarters

Industry committee  Yes. When we're ultimately serving mobile users, it won't be directly from the satellite to those mobile handsets. We'll provide a great big broadband pipe to a wireless tower anywhere in the world and that wireless tower will then communicate with the handsets and people's house

Industry committee  They just come to us. We're doing it now. We've already launched one of these. We're running tests with companies all over the world. We performed a test with Vodafone in the U.K., demonstrating how LEO constellations can support 5G connectivity. We are working with Canadian com

Industry committee  Our LEO constellation will be fully and, I would say, seamlessly integrated with other terrestrial networks, wireless networks and fixed-line networks all around the world. Our constellation will operate within the Metro Ethernet Forum standards. These are the standards that all