[arboghast]

I’m sure he is. It’s easier for Scandinavian countries because they don’t have such a large, deserted territory. But most of the Canadian population is concentrated in specific areas, mostly in the southern part. There are some relatively large towns below the 55th parallel, but for the most part it’s large, empty land with small communities and reservations spreaded across the territory.

Starlink would provide broadband to communities that still don’t have it, or have it at a higher price because it’s a different satellite internet provider. Even more so past the 55th. I’m sure Santa would appreciate too.

[nix23]

But why starlink then? A Stationary satellite for N.-Canada would do a much better job.

[francislavoie]

No it doesn't. To have a "stationary satellite", you need to put it in a geosynchronous orbit, which is 32,000km up. With starlink, it's at about 550km up. The latency difference is _huge_. With starlink, you can easily get 50-150ms ping times. With geo satellites, you get like 2 _seconds_. That's completely unusable for many usecases of the internet like video calls or online videogames.