SpaceX applies to CRTC for BITS licence

GATINEAU – On May 20, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) filed an application with the CRTC for a Basic International Telecommunications Services (BITS) Licence. Interested parties had until June 19 to intervene and more than 1,800 of them (mostly individual Canadians and businesses supporting the idea) did. A BITS licence is obtained by submitting an affidavit to the CRTC and is, for all intents and purposes, a mere registration regime. Nearly all are approved. The mystery, in this case, resides in the fact that after filing its affidavit, SpaceX triggered so many interventions, which is truly unusual and not exactly useful....