{"id":83659,"date":"2012-01-18T22:02:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/o3b-ceo-sets-broadband-service-launch-target-in-2013\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T22:02:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:02:40","slug":"o3b-ceo-sets-broadband-service-launch-target-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/o3b-ceo-sets-broadband-service-launch-target-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"O3b CEO Sets Broadband Service Launch Target in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-18-12] <b>O3b Networks<\/b> will launch its new satellite broadband service next year, O3b CEO Steve Collar announced Jan. 17 at a telecom conference in Hawaii.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe are one year from the planned launch of its satellite constellation that will provide fiber-comparable broadband services in remote parts of the world,\u201d Collar said in the statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;O3b Networks launched in 2008. The company spent the next two years raising $1.18 billion in funding from a variety of investors, including Google. Last month, O3b Networks announced it raised $137 million for the construction of four additional satellites that will aim to double capacity and boost redundancy over its targeted emerging markets, the broadband operator and service provider announced.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The additional spacecraft will launch in 2014, joining O3b Networks\u2019 initial fleet of eight MEO satellites scheduled to orbit in early 2013.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-18-12] O3b Networks will launch its new satellite broadband service next year, O3b CEO Steve Collar announced Jan. 17 at a telecom conference in Hawaii. &nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe are one year from the planned launch of its satellite constellation that will provide fiber-comparable broadband services in remote parts of the world,\u201d Collar said in the statement. [&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-83659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83659"}],"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=83659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}