{"id":83576,"date":"2012-02-07T00:51:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telesat-to-spend-40-million-on-canadian-infrastructure-expansion-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T00:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:51:48","slug":"telesat-to-spend-40-million-on-canadian-infrastructure-expansion-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telesat-to-spend-40-million-on-canadian-infrastructure-expansion-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Telesat to Spend $40 Million on Canadian Infrastructure Expansion, Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-06-12] <b>Telesat<\/b> has unveiled plans to spend about $40 million to expand and modernize its broadband equipment and infrastructure serving Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon, the satellite operator announced Feb. 2.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Telesat\u2019s Arctic Communications Infrastructure Initiative is an effort to fill communication gaps in key regions. The company said the project would require about $160 million to complete during the next decade and that it is prepared to contribute about $40 million to the total cost.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;In a statement, Telesat Vice President of Business Development Paul Bush said that the plans have been submitted to a Canadian federal government agency for approval. \u201cTelesat has been serving the North for 40 years and is deeply committed to ensuring that Northern communities have access to a broadband communications infrastructure that is on par with that which exists in southern Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-06-12] Telesat has unveiled plans to spend about $40 million to expand and modernize its broadband equipment and infrastructure serving Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon, the satellite operator announced Feb. 2. &nbsp; &nbsp;Telesat\u2019s Arctic Communications Infrastructure Initiative is an effort to fill communication gaps in key regions. The company said the project would require [&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-83576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83576"}],"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=83576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}