{"id":82501,"date":"2012-09-11T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-leases-astra-4a-capacity-to-damy-engineering\/"},"modified":"2012-09-11T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:59:02","slug":"ses-leases-astra-4a-capacity-to-damy-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-leases-astra-4a-capacity-to-damy-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Leases Astra 4A Capacity to Damy Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-11-12] <b>SES Broadband Services<\/b> has signed an agreement with <b>Damy Engineering<\/b> to provide 18 MHz on of capacity on the Astra 4A satellite covering Sub-Saharan Africa, the operator announced Sept. 11.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Damy Engineering will start using the capacity, as well as the platform of SES Broadband Services for Internet access in Benin beginning in mid-September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Damy Engineering said its SES-supported offer would also include an online learning platform and free Internet terminals in post offices throughout the country. The company is partnering with La Poste du Benin and Nomotech to rollout the services.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cHow can we establish an internet culture in a country lacking interconnection infrastructure, where cabled Internet (xDSL) is notoriously inaccessible and \u2018white zones\u2019 constitute the overwhelming majority of the national territory?\u201d Damy Engineering General Manager Charles-Joel Djikpesse said in a statement. \u201cIt is within this context of seeking solutions to allow equal access to its platform that Damy Engineering became interested in alternative technologies for Internet access. SES Broadband Services and its world-class services have emerged as a compelling solution \u2013 proven and easy to deploy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-11-12] SES Broadband Services has signed an agreement with Damy Engineering to provide 18 MHz on of capacity on the Astra 4A satellite covering Sub-Saharan Africa, the operator announced Sept. 11. &nbsp; &nbsp;Damy Engineering will start using the capacity, as well as the platform of SES Broadband Services for Internet access in Benin beginning in [&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-82501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82501"}],"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=82501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}