{"id":61270,"date":"2019-10-25T20:35:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/echostar-acquires-helios-wire\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:35:41","slug":"echostar-acquires-helios-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/echostar-acquires-helios-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoStar Acquires Helios Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>EchoStar<\/strong> revealed that its subsidiary, <strong>EchoStar Global<\/strong>, acquired Helios Wire, a satellite-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The acquisition includes Helios\u2019 Australian subsidiaries <strong>Sirion Holdings<\/strong> and <strong>Sirion Global<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sirion Global holds global spectrum rights for S-band Mobile Satellite Service (MSS), administered by Australia, and has been working to develop solutions for high volume asset tracking and monitoring applications by satellite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis acquisition advances our strategy and further lays the foundation for a global S-band solution for the future,\u201d said Anders Johnson, Chief Strategy Officer, EchoStar. \u201cOur aim is to develop S-band technologies that will dramatically reduce the cost of satellite IoT, including Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) and other end-to-end services worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EchoStar revealed that its subsidiary, EchoStar Global, acquired Helios Wire, a satellite-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The acquisition includes Helios\u2019 Australian subsidiaries Sirion Holdings and Sirion Global. Sirion Global holds global spectrum rights for S-band Mobile Satellite Service (MSS), administered by Australia, and has been working to develop solutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48696,"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-61270","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\/61270"}],"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=61270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}