Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark 282
zentigger writes "At approximately 06:36 EDT Thursday, October 6, 2011, the Anik F2 satellite experienced an attitude control issue and lost earth lock, affecting C, Ku and Ka services. The satellite went into safety mode and moved from pointing to the earth to pointing to the sun. This has put most of Northern Canada in the dark as all internet and phone services come in over F2."
Re:Is the internet in Canada 100% satellite? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Get an academic on this pronto (Score:3, Informative)
Northern Canada is not really a first-world region. It's mostly empty, frozen land and remote communities of native people living pretty basic lifestyles. Not much in common with the cities in the South.
Re:Is the internet in Canada 100% satellite? (Score:3, Informative)
Dont they have undersea fiber connections to the country, and DSL and stuff?
Or even dialup?
Why would half the country use only Satellite as thier Internet connection?
99.999999% of Candians live within 100 miles of the U.S. Border, in towns and cities, with cable and dsl.
There are 6,784 people living north of about 52N. Even some of these people may have cable and satellite in their towns, but the towns rely on satellites for their uplinks.
Northern Canada != Canada (Score:5, Informative)
WOW bad headling and BAD summary (Score:5, Informative)
Should probably read....
Remote communities in Canada's far north without internet.
Any major populated area connected by land line will not be impacted... In fact I would argue that nothing larger than a "Town" is likely impacted impacted.
Northwestel data map (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.nwtel.ca/media/images/operating_map_full.jpg [nwtel.ca]
Re:Fiber to remote communities difficult (Score:2, Informative)