{"id":77825,"date":"2014-04-21T23:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thuraya-exec-satellite-companies-need-not-retreat-from-terrestrial-competition\/"},"modified":"2014-04-21T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T15:31:35","slug":"thuraya-exec-satellite-companies-need-not-retreat-from-terrestrial-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thuraya-exec-satellite-companies-need-not-retreat-from-terrestrial-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Thuraya Exec: Satellite Companies Need Not Retreat from Terrestrial Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Randy Roberts, <b>Thuraya\u2019s<\/b> VP of Innovation addressed a repeated concern among attendees at SATELLITE 2014: what role satellite can play when terrestrial services are present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve heard here at the conference is, there seems to be a question of, \u2018is the convergence between terrestrial and satellite possible? Is it going to happen?\u2019 Frankly, for Thuraya, this is our reality. For us \u2026 that\u2019s already happening, and this is a key driver for us going forward in terms of our innovation plans and product portfolio. [We ask] how do we exploit that even more?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having held previous positions with <b>Blackberry<\/b>, <b>Motorola, Nokia<\/b> and <b>AT&amp;T<\/b>, Roberts gleaned skills from his experience in the mobile wireless world and discussed how he has applied them to Thuraya. In an interview with Mark Holmes, editorial director of <i>Via Satellite<\/i>, Roberts talks about how satellite can stay competitive and hints at some of Thuraya\u2019s tactics to win over customers.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Roberts, Thuraya\u2019s VP of Innovation addressed a repeated concern among attendees at SATELLITE 2014: what role satellite can play when terrestrial services are present. \u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve heard here at the conference is, there seems to be a question of, \u2018is the convergence between terrestrial and satellite possible? Is it going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77826,"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-77825","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\/77825"}],"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=77825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}