{"id":85486,"date":"2011-01-25T19:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/news-corp-report-bskyb-may-acquire-the-clouds-wifi-network\/"},"modified":"2011-01-25T19:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:26:59","slug":"news-corp-report-bskyb-may-acquire-the-clouds-wifi-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/news-corp-report-bskyb-may-acquire-the-clouds-wifi-network\/","title":{"rendered":"News Corp Report: BSkyB May Acquire The Cloud\u2019s WiFi Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-25-11] U.K. operator <strong>BSkyB<\/strong> is in negotiations to acquire Wi-Fi hotspot network <strong>The Cloud<\/strong> to provide BSkyB\u2019s 2.8 million home broadband customers with access to broadband away from home, the <strong>News Corp.<\/strong>-owned <em>Sunday Times<\/em> reported Jan. 23.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Cloud has a network of 22,000 publicly accessible Wi-Fi hotspots around Europe. Sky\u2019s operation of The Cloud would resemble the way rival <strong>BT<\/strong> offers its subscribers Internet access via its BT OpenZone network, the report said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If the acquisition were to go through, it would put The Cloud in direct competition with BT\u2019s Content Connect pay-to-stream service, which offers video content providers with service streamed from localized servers.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; News Corp. has been considering a takeover of BSkyB, which also is owned by Rupert Murdoch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-25-11] U.K. operator BSkyB is in negotiations to acquire Wi-Fi hotspot network The Cloud to provide BSkyB\u2019s 2.8 million home broadband customers with access to broadband away from home, the News Corp.-owned Sunday Times reported Jan. 23. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Cloud has a network of 22,000 publicly accessible Wi-Fi hotspots around Europe. Sky\u2019s operation of The [&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-85486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85486"}],"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=85486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}