Rogers Communications on Tuesday announced the rollout of a new satellite-to-mobile service, the first of its kind in Canada. Rogers Satellite provides voice and video calling and a number of popular apps for weather and navigation information, vastly increasing the company’s coverage.

“This is really an important technology that’s a game changer for our industry,” Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri told National Post in an interview. “We’re really excited about this.”

Canada has decent cell service in its large population centres, although even those feature the odd dead zone. But away from major cities, there can be little to no connectivity.

Meaghan Oosterhoff knew that when she signed up for a beta test of the new service in July. The mother of three young children lives in Brant County, i

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