{"id":62596,"date":"2019-04-17T01:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-ruralweb-distribute-internet-to-brazil\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T01:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:14:07","slug":"viasat-ruralweb-distribute-internet-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-ruralweb-distribute-internet-to-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat, Ruralweb Distribute Internet to Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viasat<\/strong> partnered with its first Brazilian wholesale distribution partner, <strong>Ruralweb<\/strong>, a Brazilian-licensed company offering satellite services since 2003. Through the agreement, Ruralweb will work with Viasat to distribute and deploy high-speed satellite internet services throughout all of Brazil, even the most remote locations in the country. Additionally, Viasat&nbsp;continues to invest resources into the local Brazilian market as it awaits final approval of the amendment to its agreement with <strong>Telebras<\/strong> by The Tribunal de Contas da Uni\u00e3o (TCU).<\/p>\n<p>Through a relationship Viasat maintains with Telebras, Viasat aims to offer advanced broadband service via the Geostationary Satellite for Defense and Strategic Communications (SGDC-1) satellite. By coupling the SGDC-1 satellite with Viasat\u2019s ground network and infrastructure, Ruralweb will bring Viasat\u2019s satellite internet services to residential, small office\/home office, agricultural, and enterprise markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuralweb is a respected partner with an established distribution and fulfillment network that has served the Brazil communications market for over a decade,\u201d said Lisa Scalpone, Viasat\u2019s country manager, Brazil. \u201cRuralweb\u2019s team will help us bring affordable, scalable, high-quality broadband services to new markets, especially those communities where internet service has historically been unavailable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat partnered with its first Brazilian wholesale distribution partner, Ruralweb, a Brazilian-licensed company offering satellite services since 2003. Through the agreement, Ruralweb will work with Viasat to distribute and deploy high-speed satellite internet services throughout all of Brazil, even the most remote locations in the country. Additionally, Viasat&nbsp;continues to invest resources into the local Brazilian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55947,"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-62596","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\/62596"}],"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=62596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}