Satellite Development Center and Telesat Canada partnered again to deliver North America's first commercial satellite-based broadband communications service with the launch of Anik F2 in July 2004. The satellite is the 10th spacecraft Boeing and Telesat have deployed since 1972. Anik F2 is a Boeing 702 model. The satellite provides one of the first Ka-band services across North America bringing broadband Internet, distance learning and telemedicine to rural areas of the United States and Canada. Anik means little brother in the Inuit language.