Industry committee  I can only imagine that the other constellation you're referring to is a constellation that SpaceX has in mind. These constellations are inherently global. There's not necessarily a Canadian one. There's not necessarily a U.S. one. They are backed by companies. Ours is a Canadian

Industry committee  A body in Geneva that's part of the UN, that's called the International Telecommunication Union, allocates spectrum. I'm happy to say that Telesat Canada has priority rights to make use of the spectrum on a global basis, which we intend to use and our friends at SpaceX intend to

Industry committee  We are engaged. There will be engagement at the operator level, which is to say we are engaging with folks at SpaceX to make sure we don't interfere with one another, while recognizing that we are in the priority position. At the end of the day, it takes place at a government-to-

Industry committee  We are big believers that there's a lot of opportunity to innovate. Significant capital investments are required, but we can solve this issue. We're working on it.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for inviting Telesat to participate today. Thanks also to each of the members of this committee for their commitment to improve rural broadband connectivity and to bridge the digital divide in Canada. It would be difficult for my colleagues and me at Tel

Industry committee  I would say that in many ways actions speak louder than words. These two shareholders have owned our company now for coming on three years; it will be three years at the end of October. They have been extremely supportive of the company concerning green-lighting every new investm

Industry committee  Again, they're capable of seeing Canada.

Industry committee  There are two ways, just as we alluded to in our comments. It's been a combination of organic growth and some inorganic growth. Up until 2007, it was all a function of organic growth, just building one satellite after the other, getting them up there, building the base of the b

Industry committee  No, they're all over the equator.

Industry committee  That's right.

Industry committee  A satellite is capable of covering a third of the earth. The larger the footprint, the more diffuse the energy that's coming down from the satellite, which means the less powerful the signal is. So again I'll use the flashlight analogy. Ideally, there's sort of a trade-off. You

Industry committee  None of that would come into play. All of those statutory protections and whatnot would continue to apply to—

Industry committee  Precisely.

Industry committee  Do all BDUs use us? Probably directly or indirectly. For instance, Rogers isn't a customer of ours, but it's probably the case that some of the signals they ultimately put over their own cable infrastructure are off our satellites. Equally, all the BDUs, I would say, are also r

Industry committee  That's exactly right. With the satellites we provide to ExpressVu, the coverage is tailored over the entire Canadian land mass. Now again, you've heard us say that satellites don't respect national signals. It's not like at the border there's a hard cut-off. But you'd be surpr