{"id":57303,"date":"2021-06-11T22:46:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/alaska-communications-to-distribute-onewebs-leo-connectivity\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T22:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:46:19","slug":"alaska-communications-to-distribute-onewebs-leo-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/alaska-communications-to-distribute-onewebs-leo-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Communications to Distribute OneWeb\u2019s LEO Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Alaska Communications<\/b> will use <b>OneWeb<\/b>\u2019s satellite capacity to provide broadband service in the state, under a distribution agreement announced June 10.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Communications is a business and residential network provider in the state. Through the agreement, the business plans to sell OneWeb\u2019s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service to its customers and use OneWeb\u2019s infrastructure for middle-mile connections. LEO services through Alaska Communications and OneWeb are set to be available for service in the fourth quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Bishop, president and CEO of Alaska Communications, said the company sees this agreement as a milestone in offering low-latency, high-speed service across Alaska and in rural areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see this solution as an important piece of our toolkit,\u201d Bishop said in the news release. \u201cWe\u2019re known for creating custom solutions to meet our customer\u2019s needs. Collaborating with OneWeb augments our capabilities in serving our business and government customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OneWeb is gearing up for initial service as its LEO constellation is at 218 satellites \u2014&nbsp;80% of what is needed for initial service. The operator\u2019s first service contract was with <b>Hughes Network Systems<\/b> for the <b>U.S. Air Force Research Lab<\/b> (AFRL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Communications will use OneWeb\u2019s satellite capacity to provide broadband service in the state, under a distribution agreement announced June 10.&nbsp; Alaska Communications is a business and residential network provider in the state. Through the agreement, the business plans to sell OneWeb\u2019s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service to its customers and use OneWeb\u2019s infrastructure for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57305,"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-57303","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\/57303"}],"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=57303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}