{"id":65527,"date":"2018-04-11T01:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T17:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-wi-fi-hotspots-to-help-bridge-mexicos-digital-divide\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T01:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T17:04:26","slug":"viasat-wi-fi-hotspots-to-help-bridge-mexicos-digital-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-wi-fi-hotspots-to-help-bridge-mexicos-digital-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Wi-Fi Hotspots to Help Bridge Mexico\u2019s Digital Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viasat<\/strong> announced it will offer a satellite-enabled Wi-Fi hotspot service known as Community Wi-Fi to nearly all of Mexico. The new service will bring an affordable Wi-Fi experience directly to consumer\u2019s devices, in places where internet service has historically been unavailable or unusable. According to Viasat, the service can be deployed with minimal local infrastructure investment.<\/p>\n<p>Since April 2016, Viasat has been conducting Community Wi-Fi trials at nearly 500 sites throughout Northern Mexico using its existing satellites and Wi-Fi technologies. Today, these deployments cover hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens, where internet service was unavailable prior. With the increase in ViaSat 2 satellite capacity and coverage, the company expects to extend its reach to millions of people in unconnected towns across Mexico. Viasat launched its commercial service in&nbsp;Mexico&nbsp;with <strong>Grupo Prosperist<\/strong>, a local telecommunications and technology service provider.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Viasat also acquired managed Wi-Fi provider <strong>NetNearU<\/strong>, which had successfully managed 14 million hotspots as well as operated a managed hotspot network in nearly 30 countries. With this expertise in-house, Viasat intends to grow its number of subscribers within emerging residential markets to enterprises and commercial aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat announced it will offer a satellite-enabled Wi-Fi hotspot service known as Community Wi-Fi to nearly all of Mexico. The new service will bring an affordable Wi-Fi experience directly to consumer\u2019s devices, in places where internet service has historically been unavailable or unusable. According to Viasat, the service can be deployed with minimal local infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65528,"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-65527","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\/65527"}],"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=65527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}