{"id":74750,"date":"2015-03-21T01:04:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T17:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-digicel-provide-emergency-satcom-in-vanuatu-after-cyclone-pam\/"},"modified":"2015-03-21T01:04:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T17:04:28","slug":"ses-digicel-provide-emergency-satcom-in-vanuatu-after-cyclone-pam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-digicel-provide-emergency-satcom-in-vanuatu-after-cyclone-pam\/","title":{"rendered":"SES, Digicel Provide Emergency Satcom in Vanuatu After Cyclone Pam"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 03-20-2015] <b>Digicel Pacific Limited <\/b>and <b>SES <\/b>have donated satellite capacity and equipment to the relief effort in Vanuatu, a South Pacific island with a population of approximately 267,000 that was severely impacted by Cyclone Pam. The telco is using capacity from SES\u2019 NSS 9 satellite at 117 degrees west to restore vital communication networks across the island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith widespread devastation across Vanuatu, humanitarian organizations are working to deliver food, water and supplies as quickly as possible. Re-establishing communication networks is hastening this process and helping the people of Vanuatu connect with anxious family and friends across the globe,\u201d said Michael Murphy, Asia-Pacific CEO at Digicel.<\/p>\n<p>The category-five cyclone is considered one of the worst natural disasters in the island nation\u2019s history. Terrestrial networks across the archipelago sustained debilitating damage and in some cases are completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with the people of Vanuatu, who have witnessed unparalleled devastation to their country and homes. We are glad that we can play a part in restoring communications networks and to provide humanitarian relief via satellite,\u201d said Deepak Mathur, senior vice president of commercial at SES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 03-20-2015] Digicel Pacific Limited and SES have donated satellite capacity and equipment to the relief effort in Vanuatu, a South Pacific island with a population of approximately 267,000 that was severely impacted by Cyclone Pam. The telco is using capacity from SES\u2019 NSS 9 satellite at 117 degrees west to restore vital communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74753,"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-74750","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\/74750"}],"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=74750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}