{"id":74316,"date":"2015-04-30T00:22:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/abs-inks-multiyear-capacity-deal-with-tuvalu-telecommunications-corporation\/"},"modified":"2015-04-30T00:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:22:20","slug":"abs-inks-multiyear-capacity-deal-with-tuvalu-telecommunications-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/abs-inks-multiyear-capacity-deal-with-tuvalu-telecommunications-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"ABS Inks Multiyear Capacity Deal with Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 04-29-2015] <b>Asia Broadcast Satellite <\/b>(ABS) has signed an agreement with <b>Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation <\/b>(TTC), the state-owned telecommunications provider for the island nation of Tuvalu, for capacity on the ABS 6 satellite. The five-year agreement provides C-band capacity from the satellite\u2019s A beam for high speed broadband to schools, banks, hospitals, and IP backhaul for its mobile network. TTC enables communications between the islands \u2014 comprised of six atolls and three reef islands \u2014 and the rest of the world, primarily by satellite. The deal with ABS is also to ensure communications during natural disasters. The nation\u2019s telecommunications infrastructure suffered damage during the recent passage of Cyclone Pam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe need for communications is very important to our economy and our people. We are endeavored to ensure that all the Island\u2019s communications needs are constantly available as this is especially vital in emergency situations like cyclones and disasters. This connectivity on ABS 6 will boost our Internet bandwidth capability,\u201d said Anisi Panitusi, COO of TTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 04-29-2015] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has signed an agreement with Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation (TTC), the state-owned telecommunications provider for the island nation of Tuvalu, for capacity on the ABS 6 satellite. The five-year agreement provides C-band capacity from the satellite\u2019s A beam for high speed broadband to schools, banks, hospitals, and IP backhaul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74318,"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-74316","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\/74316"}],"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=74316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}