{"id":76336,"date":"2014-09-08T17:38:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T09:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kacific-to-support-itu-connectivity-program-in-pacific-islands\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T09:38:40","slug":"kacific-to-support-itu-connectivity-program-in-pacific-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kacific-to-support-itu-connectivity-program-in-pacific-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Kacific to Support ITU Connectivity Program in Pacific Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-08-2014] <b>Kacific Broadband Satellites<\/b> has signed a cooperation agreement with the <b>International Telecommunication Union<\/b> (ITU) for the development of satellite communications capacity and emergency communications solutions for the Pacific region. The project will establish 55 fully equipped e-centers to service communities in remote islands or rural areas in Kiribati, Micronesia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Nauru and Tonga. The e-centers will all have satellite connectivity for development and emergency telecommunication.<\/p>\n<p>Kacific pledged to donate a total of 50Mbps of dedicated bandwidth for a full year to the 11 Pacific Island countries, complemented by 40 terminals. The total value of the donation surpasses $380,000. ITU, as the implementing <b>United Nations<\/b> agency, will carry out the project in cooperation with the <b>International Telecommunication Satellite Organization<\/b> (ITSO), Kacific and the other implementation partners <b>Intelsat<\/b> and <b>Inmarsat<\/b>. ITU is providing seed funding of $500,000 and ITSO is providing $100,000 for capacity building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-08-2014] Kacific Broadband Satellites has signed a cooperation agreement with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for the development of satellite communications capacity and emergency communications solutions for the Pacific region. The project will establish 55 fully equipped e-centers to service communities in remote islands or rural areas in Kiribati, Micronesia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74176,"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-76336","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\/76336"}],"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=76336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}