{"id":57032,"date":"2021-07-28T00:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rsccs-new-director-general-speaks-on-expanding-internet-access\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T00:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:45:40","slug":"rsccs-new-director-general-speaks-on-expanding-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rsccs-new-director-general-speaks-on-expanding-internet-access\/","title":{"rendered":"RSCC\u2019s New Director General Speaks on Expanding Internet Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Russian Satellite Communications Company<\/strong> (RSCC) new Director General Alexey Volin gave some of his first public remarks this week since taking the helm of Russia\u2019s state-owned satellite operator. Volin spoke at the Territory of Meanings All-Russian Youth Educational Forum, and said RSCC\u2019s principal challenge now is to provide access to the internet throughout Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Volin became RSCC\u2019s new director general late last month replacing Yuri Prokhorov.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the fact that large parts of Russia\u2019s territory with its mineral deposits and rail and highway and river routes, and the Northern Sea Route is currently outside internet coverage. \u201cOur task is to ensure that people working in the Arctic, in remote and hard-to-reach areas, on railway, river, maritime and air transport do have the internet, as well as access to information, electronic services and communications, and assistance which they can request, if necessary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>RSCC plans to use its satellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and ones in highly elliptical orbits to address the problem. The entity is currently working with <strong>NIIR<\/strong> to develop and design ground satellite terminals that can be installed on sea, river, railway transport, as well as buses, to provide on-the-move communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) new Director General Alexey Volin gave some of his first public remarks this week since taking the helm of Russia\u2019s state-owned satellite operator. Volin spoke at the Territory of Meanings All-Russian Youth Educational Forum, and said RSCC\u2019s principal challenge now is to provide access to the internet throughout Russia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}