{"id":85489,"date":"2011-01-25T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thuraya-cto-company-looking-for-investors-to-expand-into-the-americas\/"},"modified":"2011-01-25T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T13:57:09","slug":"thuraya-cto-company-looking-for-investors-to-expand-into-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thuraya-cto-company-looking-for-investors-to-expand-into-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thuraya CTO: Company Looking for Investors to Expand into the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-25-11]<strong> Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications<\/strong> is considering a possible $200 million satellite launch to extend its service coverage to the Americas, CTO Ahmed Ali Al Shamsi said at a press conference in Dubai.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Al Shamsi said a new satellite would be feasible only if there is demand for the service and an investor willing to support the project. \u201cThe majority of Thuraya\u2019s clients are ships servicing lines between the Persian Gulf, Europe and Asia \u2026 but we need to have an investor or a partner to go to the Americas,\u201d Al Shamsi said. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thuraya\u2019s latest market expansion plan was announced in October, when the Abu-Dhabi-based company signed a contract with Asian telco <strong>Chunghwa Telecom<\/strong> to provide services to the Taiwanese MSS market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-25-11] Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications is considering a possible $200 million satellite launch to extend its service coverage to the Americas, CTO Ahmed Ali Al Shamsi said at a press conference in Dubai. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Al Shamsi said a new satellite would be feasible only if there is demand for the service and an investor willing to [&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-85489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85489"}],"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=85489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}