{"id":57757,"date":"2021-04-07T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T09:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-capacity-agreement-will-bring-4g-broadband-to-new-zealands-chatham-islands\/"},"modified":"2021-04-07T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T09:09:48","slug":"eutelsat-capacity-agreement-will-bring-4g-broadband-to-new-zealands-chatham-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-capacity-agreement-will-bring-4g-broadband-to-new-zealands-chatham-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Capacity Agreement Will Bring 4G Broadband to New Zealand\u2019s Chatham Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> has reached a deal to provide rural broadband to New Zealand\u2019s Chatham Islands, the operator announced April 7. The <b>Rural Connectivity Group<\/b> \u2014 a joint venture between New Zealand\u2019s three mobile network operators \u2014&nbsp;will use the EUTELSAT 172B satellite to deliver an upgraded telecommunications network to the islands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is part of Zealand government\u2019s Rural Broadband Initiative Phase 2. EUTELSAT 172B will provide the backhaul telecommunications link from New Zealand to five cellular sites positioned around Chatham Island. Eutelsat said this deal will offer 4G mobile coverage along the islands\u2019 roads for the time, and will maximize broadband coverage to residents on the islands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Proctor, CEO of the Rural Connectivity Group, commented: \u201cSatellite resources are very well-adapted to connecting islands that are, by their very definition, isolated from terrestrial networks. We are delighted to be able to rely on Eutelsat to bring this much needed connectivity upgrade to boost the economy in one of New Zealand\u2019s prime heritage sites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat has reached a deal to provide rural broadband to New Zealand\u2019s Chatham Islands, the operator announced April 7. The Rural Connectivity Group \u2014 a joint venture between New Zealand\u2019s three mobile network operators \u2014&nbsp;will use the EUTELSAT 172B satellite to deliver an upgraded telecommunications network to the islands.&nbsp; This is part of Zealand government\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57758,"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-57757","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\/57757"}],"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=57757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}