{"id":78551,"date":"2014-02-11T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telesat-applauds-canadian-government-commitment-to-new-funding-for-high-speed-broadband-in-rural-communities-and-the-north\/"},"modified":"2014-02-11T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T09:32:41","slug":"telesat-applauds-canadian-government-commitment-to-new-funding-for-high-speed-broadband-in-rural-communities-and-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telesat-applauds-canadian-government-commitment-to-new-funding-for-high-speed-broadband-in-rural-communities-and-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Telesat Applauds Canadian Government Commitment to New Funding for High-Speed Broadband in Rural Communities and the North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telesat, Canada\u2019s premier satellite operator, strongly supports the Government of Canada\u2019s announcement of $305 million in new funding to extend and enhance broadband access for Canadians living in rural and remote communities, including in the North. The Government\u2019s action will create economic opportunities for rural and Northern Canadians by stimulating innovation, improving productivity and enhancing access to information and markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelesat applauds the Government of Canada\u2019s decisive action today to achieve near universal access to high-speed broadband networks,\u201d said Dan Goldberg, Telesat\u2019s President and CEO. \u201cTelesat has state-of-the-art satellite infrastructure that is available today to help the Government quickly reach its objective of providing an additional 280,000 Canadian households with at least 5 megabits per second of broadband connectivity to the internet. We look forward to working with the Government and other key stakeholders to put this advanced satellite infrastructure immediately to work so that Canadians living in rural and Northern communities can be active participants in the digital economy and expand their access to markets at home and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telesat, Canada\u2019s premier satellite operator, strongly supports the Government of Canada\u2019s announcement of $305 million in new funding to extend and enhance broadband access for Canadians living in rural and remote communities, including in the North. The Government\u2019s action will create economic opportunities for rural and Northern Canadians by stimulating innovation, improving productivity and enhancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-78551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78551"}],"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=78551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}