Terrestrial solutions for remote areas typically have excessive build out and maintenance costs.
Engineers will do a tradeoff and select the most suitable solution given the criteria. It’s very easy to underestimate costs, particularly over the entire lifetime of the system.
Buddy, I’m an aero eng. There are lots of ways to get satellites in polar orbits.
Why didn’t you look at the actual Lightspeed site from Telesat? Why would you pick a random paper? The Telesat site explains it how they get coverage in polar regions.
I suggest you look up the solution that Telesat will use. I’m not involved in that project, but a quick glance shows me that the engineers involved have probably done their homework and have considered the customer base and their needs, including the need to service all regions of the country.
Fibre is not going to get us up north.
Similar problems with fibre to all of Australia. It’s just not feasible for small remote communities.
Microwave towers? They don’t bridge enormous distances but can bypass areas that it would be inadvisable to lay cable
Terrestrial solutions for remote areas typically have excessive build out and maintenance costs.
Engineers will do a tradeoff and select the most suitable solution given the criteria. It’s very easy to underestimate costs, particularly over the entire lifetime of the system.
There are solutions for the far arctic that aren’t high density mesh networks polluting low earth orbit.
Neither are satellite orbits.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/llustration-of-two-X-Y-paths-with-different-X-component_fig5_347273912
Buddy, I’m an aero eng. There are lots of ways to get satellites in polar orbits.
Why didn’t you look at the actual Lightspeed site from Telesat? Why would you pick a random paper? The Telesat site explains it how they get coverage in polar regions.
https://www.telesat.com/leo-satellites/
Of course there are, but the customers are mostly not at the poles, so any times the satellites spend at the poles is wasted.
I suggest you look up the solution that Telesat will use. I’m not involved in that project, but a quick glance shows me that the engineers involved have probably done their homework and have considered the customer base and their needs, including the need to service all regions of the country.