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As an outsider I'm not completely sure I understand Canada's vision for it's tech sector. The plan seems to be to heavily subsidize (and try to extract politic

As an outsider I'm not completely sure I understand Canada's vision for it's tech sector. The plan seems to be to heavily subsidize (and try to extract political credit for) StarLink and SpaceX so that existing rent seeking monopolies can price gouge customers even more. What's interesting is that with regulations around aerospace SpaceX can't and won't hire Canadians. The country effectively went 180 degree backward from the Nortel years when it seemed interested in being a pioneer in network tech to simply being a consumer. Seeing how Nortel didn't protect it's IP again foreign nations, that's probably a good thing that SpaceX doesn't hire Canadians. This pattern also extends to the rest of what remains of the Canadian aerospace sector. When Trump slapped tariffs later judged to be illegal on the Bombardier CSeries the Trudeau government simply... looked away and did nothing, allowing Airbus to swoop in and grab the plane and it's IP. Again, Canada will handle some assembly while engineering moves to Europe. Are these measures... popular with the Canadian public? Help me understand here.

Topgamer7 6y ago
God no, we Canadians all know we are being gouged on telecom prices. Both internet and mobility. We have the CRTC (Canadian radio-television telecom commission) which is supposed to protect the public interest, however they do a piss poor job of even trying to cast themselves in that light. There are like 3 companies that control the internet oligarchy. They used the government backed fibre expansion subsidies to build out infrastructure, then claim that magically made everything more expensive. Our telecom is required to be all Canadian companies, but all their customer service is farmed out to India or other similar region call center's. We pay through the nose of asymmetric internet speeds. I hope starlink and other factors push for a price revolt.
- 908B64B197 6y ago
  > We pay through the nose of asymmetric internet speeds. I hope starlink and other factors push for a price revolt. But StarLink still has to talk to a ground station. I doubt they will let a Canadian customer just connect to an AT&T station or T-Mobile even if they are in range. Could the local operators even segment the territory into exclusive zones by placing the ground stations a certain way?
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Topgamer7 6y ago

God no, we Canadians all know we are being gouged on telecom prices. Both internet and mobility. We have the CRTC (Canadian radio-television telecom commission) which is supposed to protect the public interest, however they do a piss poor job of even trying to cast themselves in that light. There are like 3 companies that control the internet oligarchy. They used the government backed fibre expansion subsidies to build out infrastructure, then claim that magically made everything more expensive. Our telecom is required to be all Canadian companies, but all their customer service is farmed out to India or other similar region call center's. We pay through the nose of asymmetric internet speeds. I hope starlink and other factors push for a price revolt.

908B64B197 6y ago
> We pay through the nose of asymmetric internet speeds. I hope starlink and other factors push for a price revolt. But StarLink still has to talk to a ground station. I doubt they will let a Canadian customer just connect to an AT&T station or T-Mobile even if they are in range. Could the local operators even segment the territory into exclusive zones by placing the ground stations a certain way?

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