{"id":68097,"date":"2017-06-09T17:43:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dalkom-intelsat-expand-dth-services-in-africa-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T17:43:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:43:58","slug":"dalkom-intelsat-expand-dth-services-in-africa-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dalkom-intelsat-expand-dth-services-in-africa-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalkom, Intelsat Expand DTH Services in Africa, Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intelsat<\/strong> announced that <strong>Dalkom Somalia<\/strong> signed an agreement for satellite services that will expand its broadband enterprise and Direct-to-Home (DTH) services in East and Central Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Under a multi-year agreement, Dalkom, a privately owned operator based in Somalia, will incorporate Ku-band satellite services provided by Intelsat 17 to extend services currently delivered by its fiber network. This includes expanding broadband enterprise networks into countries such as South Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the Middle East. Dalkom will also add DTH services to its portfolio in Somalia. Intelsat 17, located at 66 degrees east, is part of Intelsat\u2019s video neighborhood in the Indian Ocean region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a strong terrestrial fiber network, but our opportunities to expand into new regions and capitalize on new opportunities were limited,\u201d said Mohamed Jama, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dalkom. \u201cBy adding Intelsat\u2019s satellite expertise to our network, we can expand our enterprise services into regions where terrestrial technology cannot provide services. Intelsat 17 will also allow us to capitalize on Intelsat\u2019s media distribution knowledge to introduce DTH services for customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelsat announced that Dalkom Somalia signed an agreement for satellite services that will expand its broadband enterprise and Direct-to-Home (DTH) services in East and Central Africa and the Middle East. Under a multi-year agreement, Dalkom, a privately owned operator based in Somalia, will incorporate Ku-band satellite services provided by Intelsat 17 to extend services currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66397,"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-68097","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\/68097"}],"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=68097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}