Transport committee  Yes. Thank you. Lightspeed differs. We are essentially a B2B company. We provide backhaul connectivity in working with carriers, ISPs and other integrators. On the other hand, the Starlink service is a direct-to-user consumer offer. Their model puts the small dishes either on or

Transport committee  We have traditionally not applied for any funding programs as part of broadband deployments. We have actively worked with local and regional ISPs, indigenous and community-led ISPs. They have been the applicant for funding and they have come to Telesat to secure the backhaul sate

Transport committee  Telesat Lightspeed service doesn't compete with fibre. We're not here to compete directly where it is affordable and economical to deploy fibre. We target regions where the business case is strained, to really bring fibre to these very rural and remote areas of the country and,

Transport committee  The partnership we have with the federal government doesn't provide for funding. It really is a commitment for capacity, and the objective is to deploy that capacity in some of the most remote and rural areas of Canada to effectively provide a cost-effective backhaul connectivity

Transport committee  Essentially, yes. It's a commitment essentially for capacity, and we are currently working with a number of ISPs to bring that connectivity to these underserved communities.

Transport committee  Thank you. The satellite that is utilized today to provide the service into the remote areas of Canada, which Xplornet utilizes, still has many years of life remaining and it will certainly be able to provide service well past 2025. The LEO constellation Lightspeed service wil

Transport committee  The satellite is certainly quite capable of bridging that. I would say the agreement we currently have with Xplornet doesn't go out that far, and it will be up to Xplornet to continue offering those services in the interim.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, good evening and thank you for inviting Telesat to appear today. My name is Michele Beck. I am the vice-president of North American sales at Telesat, and I am here with my colleague, Stephen Hampton, manager of government affairs. I want to thank the committee for u

Industry committee  Thank you for that question. I would say that with the LEO constellation, the frequency bands that we are employing for our own constellation are in the Ka-band. The one advantage that we have using those frequency bands is the amount of spectrum that is available to us to deliv

Industry committee  I'll take that question. In terms of the service, to be able to provide connectivity into these remote communities, antennas will need to be deployed that are compatible with the LEO constellation. These antennas or terminals will be equipped not unlike the Starlink, but with a

Industry committee  The infrastructure that we are deploying as part of our service is enterprise grade or carrier grade. It's comparable to fibre built, so it has extremely high reliability and extreme availability. There's going to be built-in redundancy in terms of the components that form the gr

Industry committee  Yes. That's correct.

Industry committee  Yes. The ISP or the telecommunications provider will invest or purchase that remote terminal. It will be installed and they'll connect that to their local infrastructure. Consumers or local businesses will pay a monthly fee for their Internet service, and that monthly fee will de