{"id":75698,"date":"2014-11-15T01:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/o3b-networks-rcs-communications-bring-connectivity-to-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2014-11-15T01:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:26:02","slug":"o3b-networks-rcs-communications-bring-connectivity-to-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/o3b-networks-rcs-communications-bring-connectivity-to-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"O3B Networks, RCS Communications Bring Connectivity to South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-14-2014] <b>RCS Communications <\/b>has initiated commercial service in South Sudan using <b>O3b Networks<\/b>\u2019 High Throughput Satellite (HTS) constellation. The Internet Service Provider (ISP) signed a long-term capacity agreement in 2013 to extend the reach of its broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>RCS clients received access to satellite broadband on Oct. 1, 2014. The ISP is using O3b\u2019s service for new high performance services, such as RCS-<b>WiMAX,<\/b> in and around South Sudan\u2019s capital city, Juba, which has a population of more than 300,000. RCS tested O3b\u2019s service internally prior to integrating into its WiMAX network. The company is the second O3b Trunk customer with commercial service in the world, and second in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs one of O3b\u2019s pioneering clients we are excited to report the practical reality after implementation matches the theory of what we hoped to achieve when we decided to contract capacity with O3b for our WiMAX network in Juba,\u201d said Flippie Odendal, managing director, RCS Communications. \u201cWith this investment, RCS further differentiated our service offering and allowed scope to increase bandwidth capacity four-fold in the future without the need for major changes at our local gateway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-14-2014] RCS Communications has initiated commercial service in South Sudan using O3b Networks\u2019 High Throughput Satellite (HTS) constellation. The Internet Service Provider (ISP) signed a long-term capacity agreement in 2013 to extend the reach of its broadband services. RCS clients received access to satellite broadband on Oct. 1, 2014. The ISP is using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75699,"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-75698","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\/75698"}],"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=75698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}