{"id":62386,"date":"2019-05-23T17:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telebras-viasat-contract-approved-by-brazilian-federal-court-of-accounts\/"},"modified":"2019-05-23T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:45:59","slug":"telebras-viasat-contract-approved-by-brazilian-federal-court-of-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telebras-viasat-contract-approved-by-brazilian-federal-court-of-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Telebras, Viasat Contract Approved by Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telebras<\/strong>, a Brazilian state-controlled public telecommunications company, and <strong>Viasat<\/strong> revealed the final approval of their contract by The Tribunal de Contas da Uni\u00e3o (TCU), also known as the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts. Today\u2019s TCU ruling gives Viasat and Telebras the ability to quickly provide internet service across all of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2018, the TCU requested certain modifications to the Telebras-Viasat contract in order to fully commercialize broadband services on Telebras\u2019s SGDC (Geostationary Satellite for Defense and Strategic Communications) Ka-band satellite. Today\u2019s TCU ruling approved all modifications, enabling the two companies to continue bringing high-speed internet service to unserved and underserved communities, health clinics, schools, and hospitals across all of Brazil. The agreement also enables the companies to leverage the SGDC satellite for enterprise and aviation markets, as well as provide satellite-enabled Community Wi-Fi hotspot and residential services across Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Scalpone, vice president and general manager, Viasat Brasil, commented, \u201cFrom the beginning, we have been committed to full compliance with Brazilian law. We recognize that our relationship with Telebras is a complex and new business model, and we appreciate the thorough analysis of it by the TCU and its staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telebras, a Brazilian state-controlled public telecommunications company, and Viasat revealed the final approval of their contract by The Tribunal de Contas da Uni\u00e3o (TCU), also known as the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts. Today\u2019s TCU ruling gives Viasat and Telebras the ability to quickly provide internet service across all of Brazil. In October 2018, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62390,"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-62386","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\/62386"}],"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=62386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}