{"id":79280,"date":"2013-11-21T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T09:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/caribsat-launches-satellite-broadband-in-french-west-indies-and-french-guiana-with-eutelsats-ip-easy-service\/"},"modified":"2013-11-21T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T09:09:45","slug":"caribsat-launches-satellite-broadband-in-french-west-indies-and-french-guiana-with-eutelsats-ip-easy-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/caribsat-launches-satellite-broadband-in-french-west-indies-and-french-guiana-with-eutelsats-ip-easy-service\/","title":{"rendered":"CaribSat Launches Satellite Broadband in French West Indies and French Guiana with Eutelsat\u2019s IP Easy Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-21-13] <b>Eutelsat <\/b>and <b>CaribSat<\/b>, an Internet service provider for the French West Indies and French Guiana, signed a distribution agreement for the IP Easy satellite broadband service provided through the Caribbean footprint of the Eutelsat 8 West A satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in Guadeloupe, CaribSat is offering consumers and small businesses Internet connectivity with download speeds ranging from 512 Kbps to 6 Mbps from 29.90 euros ($41.21) a month. The service will be extended to Martinique, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barth and French Guiana starting Jan. 1, 2014. The user equipment for the IP Easy service comprises a one meter antenna and modem. Equipment costs are in many cases subsidized by local communities in regions benefiting from funds allocated for Internet connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas 66 percent of the more than one million people living in the French West Indies and French Guiana have a PC, only 50 percent have broadband compared to 72 percent broadband penetration in metropolitan France, according to data from <b>ARCEP,<\/b> an independent French agency in charge of regulating telecommunications in France, from July 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-21-13] Eutelsat and CaribSat, an Internet service provider for the French West Indies and French Guiana, signed a distribution agreement for the IP Easy satellite broadband service provided through the Caribbean footprint of the Eutelsat 8 West A satellite. Starting in Guadeloupe, CaribSat is offering consumers and small businesses Internet connectivity with download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79281,"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-79280","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\/79280"}],"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=79280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}