Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Telesat Reveals Ambitious Roll out of Ka Band Service in Canada

It looks like the folks in Canada will receive Ka band internet service before American's get it. Telesat announced this week they are rolling out service in April 2005 through Barrett Xplore, one of Canada's largest internet service providers. They provide service under the trade name Xplornet(formerly LincSat).
Details on the service packages and pricing for both residential and business customers will be made available over the coming weeks. If they are planning to have service available in April (two days from now) and making pricing available "in the coming weeks", when is it actually going to launch? It sounds like the sales department might have a touch of the "Alligator Mouth" syndrome. We'll see.... they say they are working hard to make it happen on schedule.
April 21, 2005 UPDATE: Well it appears Xplornet did get a bit ahead of themselves...now service is slated to begin in July 2005.