Ontario to end $100M Starlink agreement ahead of U.S. tariffs

https://www.cp24.com/news/2025/02/03/ontario-rips-up-100m-starlink-contract-ahead-of-us-tariffs/

by -Mystica-

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  2. More on this subject from other reputable sources:

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    – Associated Press (A-): [Ontario premier says he’s ripping up contract with Musk’s Starlink in response to Trump tariffs](https://apnews.com/article/canada-trump-tariffs-ontario-musk-2bc1b52b0390aee9686b270606c51573)
    – Star (C-): [Canada tariffs: Trudeau, Trump to speak today; Ontario banning American companies, ripping up deal with Starlink; Loonie falls to lowest level since 2003](https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-responds/article_2b6b2f68-e230-11ef-b18e-f33fde2a2aeb.html)
    – Global News (B+): [Ford ‘ripping up’ Ontario’s $100M contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink system](https://globalnews.ca/news/10995669/doug-ford-elon-musk-starlink/)
    – Bloomberg (B): [Trump Tariffs: Ontario Cancels Starlink Deal, Bars US Firms From Contracts](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-03/ontario-cancels-starlink-contract-won-t-do-deals-with-us-firms)

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  3. I’m surprised they went that route to get internet to rural communities when the Biden Administration refused to do.

  4. And they will regret it because a lot of Canada is hard to access and get internet

  9. i couldn’t be happier. starlink internet satellites are menace to orbital space travel by everyone else. 5-10% of those previously sent into orbit are already inoperative.

    12,000 starlink satellites are planned, when the system is complete. and I expect almost immediately some scientist will shout “eureka! I found a way to carry the same bandwith of data with less than 1% of satellite and terrestrial tower load”

    does anyone remember the original 1G cellular network (1979). it’s download speed was 2.4 kps (kilobits per second). Most phones today operate on 5G, with a nominal speed of 179 Mps (megabits per second) – essentially 100,000 times faster than 1G.

    But 5G is already obsolete. 6G is on the drawing board. expected in 2030. it will have a speed of 8 MLLION mps – 40,000 times faster than the current 5 G.

    Starlink operates at an average speed of 100 Mps – about half the speed of 5G – under ideal conditions (low interference from atmospheric conditions, cloud cover, solar flares, bandwidth saturation). It’s already obsolete compared to 5G.

    Short sellers – start your engines!

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