{"id":59324,"date":"2020-07-27T17:48:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T09:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/optus-and-foxtel-partnership-extended-until-2031\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T17:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T09:48:43","slug":"optus-and-foxtel-partnership-extended-until-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/optus-and-foxtel-partnership-extended-until-2031\/","title":{"rendered":"Optus and Foxtel Partnership Extended Until 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Optus<\/strong> extended its partnership with <strong>Foxtel<\/strong>, with an extension for the provision of satellite services until 2031. Foxtel is a media company, while Optus Satellite owns and operates Australia and New Zealand\u2019s largest fleet of spacecraft with five satellites currently in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) that service broadcast, corporate, and government customers.<\/p>\n<p>Foxtel and Optus have been partnered since 1998, delivering live sports, movies, drama, news, and entertainment content \u2013 including Australia\u2019s only dedicated, live 4K broadcast channel \u2013 to both regional and metropolitan areas across two Optus satellites in orbit over Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we look to the future of the satellite business, this expanded services agreement builds on our legacy of delivering world-class satellite services and further strengthens Optus\u2019 position as Australia and New Zealand\u2019s leading provider of satellite services,\u201d said Ben White, Optus managing director, wholesale, satellite and strategy. \u201cOur collaboration provides resilience for existing services and an opportunity for future expansion as Australians continue to embrace 4K viewing and see 8K video on the horizon. This commitment provides Foxtel a proven and reliable platform for the delivery of high-quality video images watched on the large screens in homes and other venues over the next 11 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optus extended its partnership with Foxtel, with an extension for the provision of satellite services until 2031. Foxtel is a media company, while Optus Satellite owns and operates Australia and New Zealand\u2019s largest fleet of spacecraft with five satellites currently in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) that service broadcast, corporate, and government customers. Foxtel and Optus have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59325,"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-59324","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\/59324"}],"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=59324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}