{"id":68540,"date":"2017-03-22T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/speedcast-to-provide-satellite-off-grid-small-cell-comms-in-rural-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:37:18","slug":"speedcast-to-provide-satellite-off-grid-small-cell-comms-in-rural-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/speedcast-to-provide-satellite-off-grid-small-cell-comms-in-rural-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"SpeedCast to Provide Satellite, Off-Grid Small Cell Comms in Rural Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SpeedCast International<\/strong> announced that it is connecting residents in remote villages in Afghanistan through a partnership with one of the country\u2019s largest Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators, <strong>Wasel Telecom<\/strong>. The two companies provide connectivity through a fully managed, off-grid small cell end-to-end solution that includes satellite communications, solar panels, Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) and accompanying towers.<\/p>\n<p>An off-grid small cell solution is a radio access network that includes outdoor small cells (low-powered radio access nodes that operate in licensed and unlicensed spectrum supporting 2G, 3G and 4G LTE) and a base station controller. Satellite backhaul completes the solution. A solar power system and battery bank with a self-supporting tower enables the network, which has a range of up to 5km.<\/p>\n<p>After completing a successful proof of concept with Wasel Telecom to connect three rural villages, SpeedCast and Wasel Telecom agreed to collaborate on a bid for an upcoming project for the Afghan government. The work would extend the solution to more than 200 villages in the hardest-to-reach areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrangement has the potential to bring broadband, cellular services, e-health services, e-learning and telemedicine to the most remote areas of the globe,\u201d said Speedcast Chief Executive Officer PJ Beylie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpeedCast International announced that it is connecting residents in remote villages in Afghanistan through a partnership with one of the country\u2019s largest Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators, Wasel Telecom. The two companies provide connectivity through a fully managed, off-grid small cell end-to-end solution that includes satellite communications, solar panels, Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68541,"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-68540","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\/68540"}],"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=68540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}