{"id":73641,"date":"2015-07-28T21:41:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/abs-inks-multi-transponder-deal-with-fsm-telecommunications-corporation\/"},"modified":"2015-07-28T21:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:41:45","slug":"abs-inks-multi-transponder-deal-with-fsm-telecommunications-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/abs-inks-multi-transponder-deal-with-fsm-telecommunications-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"ABS Inks Multi-Transponder Deal with FSM Telecommunications Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-28-2015] <b>FSM Telecommunications Corporation <\/b>(FSMTC) has reached a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement with <b>Asia Broadcast Satellite <\/b>(ABS) for C-band capacity on its ABS 6 satellite. The capacity agreement will provide Internet connectivity to support FSMTC\u2019s growing business.<\/p>\n<p>FSMTC is a public corporation established by the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) to provide all telecommunications services throughout the country. The island nation is comprised of four states: Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae in the West Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>FSMTC will use the satellite capacity on ABS 6 to connect Pohnpei to the other three states and one of its neighboring islands, Ulithi. The company plans to use broadband connectivity for commercial, government, educational and other applications.<\/p>\n<p>FSM is subjected to climate changes and disasters, such as typhoons, making reliability of service paramount. Access to C band was a critical part of the agreement, as it is not as easily attenuated by inference from severe weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-28-2015] FSM Telecommunications Corporation (FSMTC) has reached a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) for C-band capacity on its ABS 6 satellite. The capacity agreement will provide Internet connectivity to support FSMTC\u2019s growing business. FSMTC is a public corporation established by the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) to provide all telecommunications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73644,"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-73641","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\/73641"}],"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=73641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}