{"id":65991,"date":"2018-02-26T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telebras-viasat-to-connect-the-unconnected-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:30:05","slug":"telebras-viasat-to-connect-the-unconnected-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telebras-viasat-to-connect-the-unconnected-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Telebras, Viasat to Connect the Unconnected in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telebras<\/strong>, a Brazilian state-controlled public telecommunications company, and <strong>Viasat<\/strong> have announced a strategic agreement to bring high-speed, affordable internet to unserved and underserved communities, health clinics, schools and hospitals across all of Brazil. The collaboration will help fulfill the Brazilian government\u2019s National Broadband Program (Programa Nacional de&nbsp;Banda Larga, or PNBL), which is focused on promoting social and economic development in the country by ensuring broadband connectivity to all Brazilians.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration will combine the Ka-band capacity of the Telebras-owned and controlled satellite, the Geostationary Satellite for Defense and Strategic Communications (SGDC 1), with Viasat\u2019s ground network and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> launched the SGDC 1 satellite in&nbsp;May 2017. Once the SGDC 1 network is operational, Telebras can meet its obligations to provide internet services to&nbsp;Brazil\u2019s&nbsp;citizens under the \u201cBrazilian Internet for All\u201d public policy as well as key national government entities, including schools, hospitals and other government institutions under the Brazilian e-government initiative known as Governo Electronico-Servico de Atendimento ao Cidadao (GESAC).&nbsp; In addition, under the terms of the agreement, Viasat will leverage the SGDC 1 satellite network to explore satellite services for enterprise and commercial aviation markets as well as launch satellite-enabled Wi-Fi hotspot and residential services into communities across&nbsp;Brazil&nbsp;that lack high-quality, affordable internet services.<\/p>\n<p>Specific terms of the agreement have not been made public; however, the arrangement is founded on a success-based revenue-share model in which Telebras expects newly enabled market opportunities to potentially generate more than&nbsp;$1 billion&nbsp;in revenues for the company over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telebras, a Brazilian state-controlled public telecommunications company, and Viasat have announced a strategic agreement to bring high-speed, affordable internet to unserved and underserved communities, health clinics, schools and hospitals across all of Brazil. The collaboration will help fulfill the Brazilian government\u2019s National Broadband Program (Programa Nacional de&nbsp;Banda Larga, or PNBL), which is focused on promoting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65994,"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-65991","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\/65991"}],"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=65991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}