{"id":80687,"date":"2013-07-08T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/o3bs-satellites-provide-connectivity-in-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:23:10","slug":"o3bs-satellites-provide-connectivity-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/o3bs-satellites-provide-connectivity-in-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"O3b\u2019s Satellites Provide Connectivity in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"159\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/o3b-satellites-lift-off1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i><br \/>\nO3b\u2019s first four satellites roared skyward aboard the Arianespace Soyuz launch vehicle on June 25.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: O3b\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 7-8-13] Following the launch of its first four satellites, <strong>O3b Networks<\/strong>&nbsp;announced a major long-term capacity deal to provide high-speed, low-latency capacity to <b>RCS-Communication<\/b>, an Internet service provider in South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBy delivering highly affordable and ubiquitous bandwidth with the performance and speed of fiber, the region will enjoy much improved connectivity, spurring both economic growth and social development,\u201d an O3b written statement said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The announcement follows the launch of O3b\u2019s first four satellites at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on June 25, 2013. The O3b network will deliver broadband connectivity everywhere on Earth within 45 degrees of latitude north and south of the equator. O3b\u2019s vast coverage area includes emerging and insufficiently connected markets in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, with a collective population of over 3 billion people.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cHigh speed data communications have the potential to accelerate economic growth supporting entrepreneurship and multinational commerce,\u201d Omar Trujillo, regional VP Africa &amp; LatAm, O3b said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O3b\u2019s first four satellites roared skyward aboard the Arianespace Soyuz launch vehicle on June 25. Image credit: O3b [Satellite TODAY 7-8-13] Following the launch of its first four satellites, O3b Networks&nbsp;announced a major long-term capacity deal to provide high-speed, low-latency capacity to RCS-Communication, an Internet service provider in South Sudan. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBy delivering highly [&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-80687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80687"}],"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=80687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}