{"id":83088,"date":"2012-05-18T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/directv-hughes-and-viasat-to-bundle-services\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:02:38","slug":"directv-hughes-and-viasat-to-bundle-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/directv-hughes-and-viasat-to-bundle-services\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV, Hughes and ViaSat to Bundle Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-18-12] Satellite pay-TV company <b>DirecTV<\/b> has signed new agreements with satellite broadband providers <b>ViaSat<\/b> and <b>Hughes<\/b> that will allow U.S. customers to bundle their video and high-speed Internet services, DirecTV announced May 17.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;DirecTV will offer ViaSat\u2019s Exede service and Hughes\u2019 HughesNet Gen4 satellite broadband services to customers living in mostly unserved, rural areas later this year. The new offering will be coupled with triple-play packages from <b>Verizon, AT&amp;T, Century Link<\/b> and other telco providers and provided at bundled pricing.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe look forward to offering every single DirecTV customer access to fast, affordable broadband options through DirecTV, no matter where they live,\u201d DirecTV Senior Vice President of Emerging Markets Oswin Eleonora said in a statement. \u201cWith greatly improved capacity and speeds, satellite broadband services provided by ViaSat and Hughes will fully support our customers\u2019 connected home experience, enabling them to access a host of features like YouTube, Pandora, social TV apps and more than 7,000 video-on-demand titles.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Dish Network has a similar deal with ViaSat, which allows it to offer data and video bundles with Exede via the ViaSat-1 satellite at about $80 per month. Dish\u2019s sister company <b>EchoStar<\/b> acquired Hughes Network Systems for $1.3 billion in February 2011.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-18-12] Satellite pay-TV company DirecTV has signed new agreements with satellite broadband providers ViaSat and Hughes that will allow U.S. customers to bundle their video and high-speed Internet services, DirecTV announced May 17. &nbsp; &nbsp;DirecTV will offer ViaSat\u2019s Exede service and Hughes\u2019 HughesNet Gen4 satellite broadband services to customers living in mostly unserved, rural areas [&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-83088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83088"}],"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=83088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}