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Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp popularly known as SpaceX applied for licence to offer satellite-based high speed internet service to rural areas in Canada. Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. The company aims to provide high speed internet services to Canadians by beaming it to them via the company’s network of satellites.
As reported, the space exploration company SpaceX had applied for Basic International Telecommunications Services (BITS) licence with Canada’s telecom regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The BITS licence is the basic requirement for any company that wants to offer telecommunications traffic between Canada and rest of the world and includes voice and data transmission over cellular networks but SpaceX has submitted plans to beam it through satellites to rural areas in Canada.
If SpaceX is eventually granted the licence, the company may offer more wireless telecom, voice and data services down the line.
“Canada is far from the only place SpaceX is trying to offer internet service. The company is planning to offer high-speed internet services in the United States later this year through a subsidiary known as Starlink before rapidly expanding to near global coverage of the populated world by 2021,” the company says on its website.
The outcome of the license application is expected within next few days.
