{"id":113229,"date":"2020-09-20T21:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-federation-of-northern-ontario-municipalities-supports-access-to-spacex-starlink-internet-in-canada"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T04:22:29","slug":"the-federation-of-northern-ontario-municipalities-supports-access-to-spacex-starlink-internet-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-federation-of-northern-ontario-municipalities-supports-access-to-spacex-starlink-internet-in-canada","title":{"rendered":"The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities supports access to SpaceX Starlink internet in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-federation-of-northern-ontario-municipalities-supports-access-to-spacex-starlink-internet-in-canada2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week on September 16, the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) Board of Directors held a meeting to discuss their support for bringing SpaceX\u2019s Starlink broadband internet service to Canada. \u201cThe Board adopted a resolution during a recent meeting in Hearst, held both electronically and in-person, supporting Starlink, a satellite internet service that\u2019s being developed by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation\u2019s (SpaceX),\u201d FONOM representatives wrote in a press release. \u201cThe Resolution also calls on the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to permit and expand the company a Basic International Telecommunications Services (BITS) license.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know today our citizens require greater connectivity than 50\/10 megabits per second,\u201d the President of FONOM Danny Whalen said in a statement. \u201cFONOM believes that the Starlink program is our best option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX says its service is capable of providing low-latency broadband internet below 30 milliseconds, and download speeds greater than 100 megabits per second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on September 16, the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) Board of Directors held a meeting to discuss their support for bringing SpaceX\u2019s Starlink broadband internet service to Canada. \u201cThe Board adopted a resolution during a recent meeting in Hearst, held both electronically and in-person, supporting Starlink, a satellite internet service that\u2019s being [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}