What will Bell do with the new Nimiq 5 satellite?

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I don't think so. Business is not a charity. Canadian company's will be out of business if they sell below cost to a Canadian company when they could make a profit by selling elsewhere.

Best thing a Canadian company can do is make lots of money so they can hire more Canadians, pay more corporate taxes and hopefully give bigger raises to their Canadian employees.
 
This is really unpredictable right now. No one really knows what's going to happen.

I know an employe which works at bell and he says that they are extremly close in completly selling off there satelite tv service to start putting some of that money into IPTV. The reason they are trying to squeeze as much money as they can out of there satelite services right now is because it won't matter at all in the future to them. This is actually a beautiful thing if they sell ExpressVu to someone else, i've even heard rumours that Star Choice might buy express vu, which would be really interesting (although in my personal opinion that deal will not go down). Anyways pretty much any way you look at it it looks like a pretty good future for TV.
 
I doubt they would be doing an expensive card swap and contemplating a sale of BEV at the same time, and Bell has already stated publicly that they've put IPTV on the back burner for now.

But it is puzzling just what their plans are. They might have traded off some satellite capacity for less expensive MPEG4 receivers, to speed that transition up.

-Mike
 
From Vancouver, going to 72.5 drops you from ~ 21 down to ~ 16 degrees.

I can reach a 61.5 bird from Calgary, but it's at 14 and with the Dish LNB offset, it looks weird pointing into the ground.
I'm sure if I had even minor hills in the way, I'd be toast.
BTW, this was from a sanctioned Voom installation a while back.

Then you Wet coast boys have that little mound (The Rockies) to the East, so best of luck.

Whereas the Anik fleet sits near 31 for you and is ideally positioned for fantastic national coverage.

Something to think about anyways.
 
Info is a little old, however may answer questions about the satellites which will eventually replace Nimiq 1,4, & 5.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/vwapj/Telesat-Licence%205%20Canadian%20Sat%20Capacity%20&%20Service%20Plans%20Nov%2015%202pm.pdf/$FILE/Telesat-Licence%205%20Canadian%20Sat%20Capacity%20&%20Service%20Plans%20Nov%2015%202pm.pdf
 
Like I said above it's really unpredictable right now. I know they are testing IPTV in the condos in downtown montreal right now. http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpTv_Vdsl_Landing.page

It's going to be really interesting

No HD for that yet though
 
Most of the new Canadian satellite space is being sold away to Americans (Ciel II, now Nimiq 5). We'll never get it back again. I want access to those services.

-Mike
 
Maybe that's why EV is adding all those French language HD channels. They know their a$$et is toast on the west coast. :D
 
Let's get back on topic shall we, gentlemen? :-} Unless you have absolute proof BEV is gonna be sold again, then please get back on topic with Nimiq 5. :p

mucho gracias.
 
It will be later than 2012 before the 17 Ghz band is utilized. Nobody makes equipment for it right now.

BEV wouldn't be interested in the Ka slot at 115 anyway. But Telesat already has a license for Ka at 82 and, if I remember correctly, N4 will have a substantial Ka payload on board (more than the test payload that is aboard N2, which they never got to utilize). And Ciel has the Ka license for 91W.

So there is growth potential for BEV.

I highly doubt that they will go with a three satellite solution unless Industry Canada can secure rights to a 12 GHz BSS slot at 86.5W.
 
Actually if you read the story in Hugh's post above, you'll see this:

"In a written statement issued today, Telesat says Bell TV has now agreed to utilize a new Telesat direct broadcast satellite which is planned for construction beginning in the first quarter of 2010."

Not sure what the turnaround from satellite construction to commissioning is, but I'd be a little more optimistic Bell will have more bandwidth before late 2011. As has been pointed out numerous times, trying to upgrade dishes/hardware to handle programming from a satellite that, because it was at 72 degrees, was going to be marginal at best for anyone west of Ontario (not that we matter, of course) wasn't ever really in the cards, so today's announcement should not have been a surprise.
 
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