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In article <BzBL1E.BJq@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <Bz9wz3.7pu@world.std.com> tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker) writes:
>>11 and a half north of it.  Very efficient.  I wonder why the Canadians 
>>don't lease time on the CIS's satellites?
>Canada doesn't do much in the far Arctic, where Clarke-orbit satellites
>are impractically low on the horizon, so we don't really have the need
>for the extra complexities of moving satellites.



Also, I believe canada does not do much over the pole telecoms stuff.
The US relatively has more phone circuits to Moscow.  I know
a number of US companies are bidding for Soviet transponders because
there is insufficent bandwidth to the CIS and a number of those birds
are good for comms work to asia.