{"id":83279,"date":"2012-04-11T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-in-negotiations-to-provide-back-up-services-for-ethio-telecom\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T00:46:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:46:36","slug":"ses-in-negotiations-to-provide-back-up-services-for-ethio-telecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-in-negotiations-to-provide-back-up-services-for-ethio-telecom\/","title":{"rendered":"SES in Negotiations to Provide Back-up Services for Ethio Telecom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-10-12] <b>SES<\/b> is in negotiations with the <b>Ethiopian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology<\/b> to provide satellite services to back-up the infrastructure of Ethiopia\u2019s telecommunication provider, <b>Ethio Telecom<\/b>, the satellite operator announced April 9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;SES said it is planning to invest more than 1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) in satellite infrastructure in Africa and expects to launch a satellite to serve East Africa and Ethiopia. SES recently launched an initiative to enter Africa and to build long-term partnerships with key players on the continent and participated at the Innovation Africa Digital Summit held in Addis Ababa.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Ethio Telecom has been seeking satellite service providers to back-up its telecommunication infrastructure for the past year. The company said it expects that it will reach an agreement with SES in the coming months. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-10-12] SES is in negotiations with the Ethiopian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology to provide satellite services to back-up the infrastructure of Ethiopia\u2019s telecommunication provider, Ethio Telecom, the satellite operator announced April 9. &nbsp; &nbsp;SES said it is planning to invest more than 1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) in satellite infrastructure in Africa and [&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-83279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83279"}],"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=83279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}