Elon Musk’s SpaceX Granted a Licence to Provide Satellite Internet to Rural Canada

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network stands on pad 39A moments before the launch was scrubbed due to weather concerns at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sept. 28, 2020. AP Photo/John Raoux

Canada’s telecommunications regulator has given Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) a licence allowing the company to provide satellite internet service to rural Canadians.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission sent a letter to SpaceX’s chief financial officer Bret Johnson informing him it has approved the company’s application for the Basic International Telecommunications Services (BITS) licence. The BITS licence would authorize SpaceX to provide international telecommunications services between Canada and other countries.