{"id":74149,"date":"2015-05-20T18:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iridium-donates-satphones-to-itu\/"},"modified":"2015-05-20T18:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:07:56","slug":"iridium-donates-satphones-to-itu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iridium-donates-satphones-to-itu\/","title":{"rendered":"Iridium Donates Satphones to ITU"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 05-20-2015] <b>Iridium Communications <\/b>has donated 25 satellite phones along with batteries to the <b>International Telecommunications Union <\/b>(ITU) to support the agency\u2019s disaster response capabilities. The ITU recently deployed 35 satellite phones as well as 10 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) terminals, which included Iridium equipment, to Nepal. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the country on April 25 destroyed a significant amount of terrestrial infrastructure, making satellite communications vital for establishing connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIridium\u2019s donation comes at a critical time when natural disasters are on the increase,\u201d said Brahima Sanou, director of the ITU\u2019s Telecommunication Development Bureau. \u201cThis partnership confirms our continued commitment to using technology to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 05-20-2015] Iridium Communications has donated 25 satellite phones along with batteries to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to support the agency\u2019s disaster response capabilities. The ITU recently deployed 35 satellite phones as well as 10 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) terminals, which included Iridium equipment, to Nepal. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74150,"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-74149","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\/74149"}],"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=74149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}