Telesat Canada is so confident that its consumer satellite broadband service will be commercially successful when it is introduced in Canada this year that it is ordering a broadband-dedicated satellite to keep pace with the expected market. In a declaration that caught many industry officials by surprise, Telesat Canada Chief Executive Officer Larry Boisvert said Telesat likely will order a Ka-band satellite for two-way consumer broadband links by the end of the year. The satellite would supplement the Ka-band capacity on board the Anik F2 satellite, a large spacecraft carrying Ku-, C- and Ka-band transponders that was recently added to Telesat's in-orbit fleet.
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