{"id":62582,"date":"2019-04-18T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hughes-deploys-wi-fi-hotspots-across-russia\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T18:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:38:40","slug":"hughes-deploys-wi-fi-hotspots-across-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hughes-deploys-wi-fi-hotspots-across-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Deploys Wi-Fi Hotspots Across Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong>&nbsp;deployed 1,300 satellite-enabled Community Wi-Fi Hotspots across Russia by longtime service provider customers <strong>AltegroSky<\/strong> Group of Companies and <strong>KB Iskra<\/strong>. With an average of 250 people having access to each of the Home\/SMB hotspots, the providers will reach over 300,000 people in the Far East, Siberia, Central, Ura,l and Caspian\/Volga regions, where internet access was previously unavailable or unaffordable. Both KB Iskra and AltegroSky are satellite communications operators in the Russian market and have delivered a &nbsp;range of broadband services utilizing Hughes systems for over a decade, including over Wi-Fi hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>The Community Wi-Fi solution aims to offer a cost-effective path to extend internet service in areas where terrestrial broadband is unavailable or unaffordable, employing industry standard 802.11 Wi-Fi access points combined with a shared Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) terminal for cost-effective satellite backhaul. This approach yields an affordable neighborhood service where any user can access the internet with a Wi-Fi capable handheld or laptop, and requires substantially less capex per household than a traditional broadband deployment. Homeowners pay a monthly or even seasonal subscription fee to the operator to have internet access in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur partnerships with AltegroSky and Corporate Group Iskra underscore the essential role of High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) technology in connecting the unconnected,\u201d said Vinay Patel, senior director, International Division at Hughes. \u201cThe Community Wi-Fi solution and subscriber business model solve the very real problem of bringing affordable Internet access to communities everywhere, especially in areas outside the reach of terrestrial broadband.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hughes Network Systems&nbsp;deployed 1,300 satellite-enabled Community Wi-Fi Hotspots across Russia by longtime service provider customers AltegroSky Group of Companies and KB Iskra. With an average of 250 people having access to each of the Home\/SMB hotspots, the providers will reach over 300,000 people in the Far East, Siberia, Central, Ura,l and Caspian\/Volga regions, where internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58313,"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-62582","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\/62582"}],"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=62582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}