Bell selling telesat?

[tixtax]

As to what I heard this morning on my daily comute to work is that Bell has sold it's telesat comunications to.....(I can't remember who).....but would this have anything to do with the problems of coders or even when they had the problems Wednesday with there own customers with B3V??

Not really concerned because Charlie is here for me, just something that might be answered.

[subarreddy]

Hi can anyone tell me or any news is down for a week now,I cannot get Nimiq 2. thanks.

[tixtax]

SUB....let me let you down and tell you that B3V has not been up for a week.....now.......not to sound rude but this is what you call hijacking a thread...****ually people tell you to read the forums for your type of questions, but if you might have noticed on the first page is that the fabulous people here who run the site tell you that B3V is down, so don't be to shocked that you're not the only one....

[Bobby67fb]

I heard the Ontario Teachers Union wanted to buy it.

[lmcarlos]

This is what was forwarded at work from the star, full article can be found at TheStar.com. I work for T*l*S Mobility;

Telesat Canada was a pioneer in satellite communications and systems management. Created in 1969, it made history with the launch of Anik A1 in 1972 — the world’s first domestic communications satellite in geostationary orbit, operated by a commercial company.
Loral said it will contribute to the new company the fixed-satellite services and network services assets of its Loral Skynet subsidiary. That will make it the fourth-largest satellite operator in the world, based on the number of satellites in orbit.

“At the outset of this process, we set three goals,” BCE chief executive Michael Sabia said in a release. “First, we were determined to surface the value of the asset. Second, we wanted to make certain any transaction fully protected the future of ExpressVu. And finally, we wanted to position Telesat as a truly global player in a rapidly consolidating industry.
“This transaction meets each of those objectives. The new company will be the fourth-largest satellite services operator in the world. Global in scale, but Canadian-based and Canadian-controlled.”
Telesat also said it has received approval from its board of directors to order a Nimiq 5 satellite and to provide Bell ExpressVu with access to expanded satellite capacity in the future.