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Galaxy Broadband to provide Eutelsat OneWeb satellite service to Shared Services Canada

Galaxy Broadband Communications, a Mississauga, Ont.-based subsidiary of Crown Capital Partners, announced Monday it has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide Shared Services Canada with Eutelsat OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) enterprise satellite services. Work has already begun to implement service at several sites for multiple federal departments and agencies, according to a Galaxy press release, and the rollout is expected to accelerate over the next several months. “We are so proud to be given this opportunity to close the broadband divide in this country by providing this transformational technology to federal government departments operating in every province and territory,” Rick Hodgkinson,...