{"id":67157,"date":"2017-10-03T22:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hughes-introduces-satellite-internet-service-in-colombia\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T22:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:45:13","slug":"hughes-introduces-satellite-internet-service-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hughes-introduces-satellite-internet-service-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Introduces Satellite Internet Service in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong> launched its HughesNet high-speed satellite internet service in Colombia on Sept. 28, marking the company\u2019s second international deployment of the service outside North America after Brazil. Operating over the EchoStar 19 High Throughput Satellite (HTS) \u2014 which offers more than 200 Gbps of capacity \u2014 HughesNet service coverage reaches 75 percent of&nbsp;Colombia\u2019s&nbsp;population, bringing broadband internet access to consumers and businesses either unserved or underserved by terrestrial broadband, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColombia&nbsp;has many of the same market dynamics as in&nbsp;Brazil, primarily large untapped demand for high-speed internet access in areas either unserved or underserved by terrestrial internet providers,\u201d said&nbsp;Pradman Kaul, president of Hughes.&nbsp;According to Kaul, Hughes hopes to address the digital divide by enabling more affordable internet access.<\/p>\n<p>The latest generation of the Hughes Jupiter System powers the HughesNet Colombia service, employing the Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite-Second Generation&nbsp;Extension (DVB-S2X) standard for efficient use of satellite bandwidth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hughes Network Systems launched its HughesNet high-speed satellite internet service in Colombia on Sept. 28, marking the company\u2019s second international deployment of the service outside North America after Brazil. Operating over the EchoStar 19 High Throughput Satellite (HTS) \u2014 which offers more than 200 Gbps of capacity \u2014 HughesNet service coverage reaches 75 percent of&nbsp;Colombia\u2019s&nbsp;population, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67158,"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-67157","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\/67157"}],"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=67157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}