{"id":81997,"date":"2012-11-27T01:40:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T17:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/directv-and-viasat-sign-internet-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T01:40:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T17:40:19","slug":"directv-and-viasat-sign-internet-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/directv-and-viasat-sign-internet-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV and ViaSat Sign Internet Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Dish Network, DirecTV, Hughes Network Systems, Satellite Broadband <\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 11\/23\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"149\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/viasat-1.jpeg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<em>Space Systems\/Loral Built ViaSat-1 Broadband Satellite.<\/em><br \/>\nImage credit: Space Systems\/Loral\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>DirecTV<\/strong> compromised to distribute <strong>ViaSat\u2019s<\/strong> Exede high-speed Internet service, which would compete with <strong>HughesNet<\/strong> similar service that launched last month. It is expected that DirecTV will offer television and Internet bundles.  <\/p>\n<p>ViaSat has claimed that Exede will rival cable Internet and outperform telephone DSL with 12 megabits per second speed. To power the service, the company launched ViaSat 1, a high-capacity satellite, last year and started offering Exede services in March 2012. By the end of September, there were approximately 429,000 subscribers to the service. <\/p>\n<p>ViaSat also has deals with <strong>Dish Networks <\/strong>but now that HughesNet released its own high-speed Internet service, it is unclear if Dish will diminish Exede\u2019s importance.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Dish Network, DirecTV, Hughes Network Systems, Satellite Broadband Publication Date: 11\/23\/2012 Space Systems\/Loral Built ViaSat-1 Broadband Satellite. Image credit: Space Systems\/Loral DirecTV compromised to distribute ViaSat\u2019s Exede high-speed Internet service, which would compete with HughesNet similar service that launched last month. It is expected that DirecTV will offer television and Internet bundles. ViaSat has [&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-81997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81997"}],"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=81997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}