{"id":59647,"date":"2020-05-27T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hughes-wins-broadband-deal-with-philippines-cignal-tv\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:15:17","slug":"hughes-wins-broadband-deal-with-philippines-cignal-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hughes-wins-broadband-deal-with-philippines-cignal-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Wins Broadband Deal with Philippines\u2019 Cignal TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite provider <strong>Cignal TV<\/strong> has contracted <strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong> to provide HughesNet broadband service to its two million subscribers in the Philippines, Hughes announced May 27.<\/p>\n<p>Cignal TV will utilize Hughes\u2019 Jupiter VSAT platform, which includes user terminals and a network management system. The Hughes Jupiter System supports applications such as community Wi-Fi hotspots, cellular backhaul, enterprise networks and In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) services, in addition to broadband internet access.<\/p>\n<p>A subsidiary of <strong>MediaQuest Holdings<\/strong> and <strong>PLDT Group<\/strong>, Cignal TV transmits 121 channels in the Philippines, including free-to-air, SD and HD channels to household and commercial venues . It also offers a mix of 12 audio channels and on-demand service through pay-per-view channels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo launch satellite internet, we need a platform that we know will deliver a high-quality experience for our two million customers \u2013 this is why we chose the Hughes Jupiter System,\u201d Jane Jimenez Basas, president and CEO of Cignal TV said in a statement. \u201cIn addition to its proven ability to support home internet, the Jupiter platform gives us the flexibility to consider other satellite services, such as cellular backhaul, community Wi-Fi and enterprise applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite provider Cignal TV has contracted Hughes Network Systems to provide HughesNet broadband service to its two million subscribers in the Philippines, Hughes announced May 27. Cignal TV will utilize Hughes\u2019 Jupiter VSAT platform, which includes user terminals and a network management system. The Hughes Jupiter System supports applications such as community Wi-Fi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59648,"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-59647","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\/59647"}],"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=59647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}