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I figure he is probably trying to take credit for Starlink making decent Internet available to the Rural population of Canada. It was interesting how he let Rogers, Bell and Telus hide under the Umbrella of "Canadian Media Companies" to insure they had no competition from US Carriers under NAFTA 2.0.

I was surprised they even allowed Starlink since it could threaten the potential business Rogers, Bell and Telus could have sometime during the next century.

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Trudeau is supporting Canadian company Telesat who will begin launching LEO satellites late next year. I don't expect Starlink to cover northern Canada but I expect Telesat will.

I don't think Telesat is Canadian but I do know that Bell and Shaw are in bed with them. So hence the connection to funnel more money into their pockets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesat

> I figure he is probably trying to take credit for Starlink

Is Canada involved at all in the tech behind Starlink? It looks to me it's 100% funded and developed by SpaceX here in the US.

No, Canada isn't involved at all in SpaceX.

The issue with Canada is that Big Telco owns the Government. So when it comes to competition there is none and they make sure nothing threatens their Oligarchy. Trudeau like others, promises to go after them every time there is an election and then does shit like everyone before him. I'm sure there is a payoff somewhere in there for him and the others.

Any money he throws at this will be tax payer money and it's just a different way of separating the masses from their wealth and funneling more of it to Big Telco. He will never offer any kind of support to companies like SpaceX since they are not part of the club.

Just good old corruption in plain sight of the masses. He knows they won't do anything about it and there are millions in favors he has coming when he decides to leave Government.

You know what though, I think American telecoms can stay out of Canada, thanks very much.

Can you expand on your sentiment?

Just taking a guess: There's not much variability in Canadian ISPs, they're all pretty bad. You can move across the country and your experience will be the same.

The US has a lot more variability. Lots of big players and a million tiny ones. Usually you'll have 1 or 2 choices, but sometimes they're both worse than the usual suspect Canadian providers.

These statements only apply to DSL/Cable.

The costs are high, but the quality of service is really good. I have a fibre connection and receive 1 Gbps (speed test occasionally returns 1.1 Gbps) with 1 ms latency and Unlimited bandwidth. Previously I had cable and received 600 Mbps with 6 ms latency also with unlimited bandwidth.

Telecoms are vital national infrastructure. And I would consider US telecoms security risks.

Are you implying Canadian traffic isn't vacuumed up voluntarily by the Canadian government for use by US intelligence? Because that's false. Canada is a card-carrying member of Five Eyes.

I know. But there are worse alternatives.

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