{"id":82373,"date":"2012-10-04T01:09:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-wins-significant-government-broadband-contract-in-albania\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T01:09:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T17:09:28","slug":"eutelsat-wins-significant-government-broadband-contract-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-wins-significant-government-broadband-contract-in-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Wins Significant Government Broadband Contract in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;[10-03-12] The <strong>Albanian Government<\/strong> and the <strong>Albanian Postal Service<\/strong> have selected <strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong>\u2019 satellite broadband service to connect 850 post offices, schools and local government offices in rural areas to the Internet, the operator announced Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe contract is part of Albania\u2019s \u201cDigital Age of Communications Agenda\u201d to increase free public Internet access for Albanian citizens.<br \/>\n\tEutelsat\u2019s <strong>Skylogic <\/strong>affiliate will team up with longstanding partner <strong>Tring Communications<\/strong> to equip schools and post offices with the Ka-Sat satellite-powered Tooway broadband service. Tring Communications, the newest brand of regional private company Albanian Satellite Communications (ASC).&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tAlbanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said the first of a total 1,000 access points are currently being deployed using an 8 Mbps satellite service.<br \/>\n\t\u201cWe have a very special terrain in our country and it is important that our villages, towns and cities do not suffer and are not discriminated against because the private sector does not wish to invest in a broadband infrastructure in these difficult or remote areas,\u201d Prime Minister Berisha said in a statement. \u201cBy licensing private companies to build their own networks, the government has expanded the broadband infrastructure. The last mile can now be completed by the public sector or in partnership with the private sector.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;[10-03-12] The Albanian Government and the Albanian Postal Service have selected Eutelsat Communications\u2019 satellite broadband service to connect 850 post offices, schools and local government offices in rural areas to the Internet, the operator announced Oct. 3. The contract is part of Albania\u2019s \u201cDigital Age of Communications Agenda\u201d to increase free public Internet access for [&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-82373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373"}],"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=82373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}