CANCOM is the common name for Canadian Satellite Communications, Incorporated (http://www.cancom.ca/), which is owned and controlled by Shaw Communications Inc. There are two major segments of Cancom's business model. The most public face of Cancom is managing one of North America's largest full-service commercial signal distribution networks. Cancom delivers more television and radio signals to North American broadcast redistributors than any other single-source satellite supplier: over 380 English, French and multilingual signals are offered via 44 Anik F1 and F2 transponders. Shaw Communications Inc. ... Anik is any of Telesat Canadas several geostationary communications satellites for television in Canada: Anik 1 Anik E1 Anik E2 Anik F1 Anik F2 Anik F3 See also: Anik Mountain This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Anik F1 is a Canadian geosynchronous communications satellite that was launched on November 21 2000 by an Ariane 44 rocket from the European Space Agency Guiana space center at Kourou. ... In telecommunication, the term transponder (sometimes abbreviated to XPDR or TPDR) has the following meanings: An automatic device that receives, amplifies, and retransmits a signal on a different frequency. ...

The other side of Cancom's business is commercial tracking via satellite. Over a decade old, Cancom Tracking provides tracking, two-way messaging and integrated transportation and logistics solutions to the Canadian trucking industry with over 31,000 units in use by over 500 companies. Of Canada's Top 25 trucking companies, 23 have adopted the Cancom technology and the numbers continue to grow. Cancom currently claims over 85% of the mobile communications market place for long-haul trucks.