{"id":85966,"date":"2010-10-22T21:55:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/launch-of-avants-hylas-1-satellite-set-for-late-november\/"},"modified":"2010-10-22T21:55:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:55:50","slug":"launch-of-avants-hylas-1-satellite-set-for-late-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/launch-of-avants-hylas-1-satellite-set-for-late-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Avant\u2019s Hylas 1 Satellite Set for Late November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-22-10] U.K. satellite ISP <strong>Avanti Communications<\/strong>\u2019 Hylas 1, the first of its next-generation broadband satellites, is slated for launch Nov. 25th after the spacecraft arrived at <strong>Arianespace<\/strong>\u2019s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, Oct. 20. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On-site preparations for the launch on an Ariane 5 are underway, and Avanti recently added broadband services contracts with U.K. information technology and communications companies <strong>InTouch Systems<\/strong> and <strong>DSL Telecom <\/strong>to its roster. The satellite operator also said that the Hylas 2 satellite is fully funded and is on track for launch in the 2012 second quarter.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Avanti Communications CEO David Williams also released a statement on the potential impact of spending cuts listed in the U.K. government\u2019s Critical Spending Review and how its measures could impact the rollout of broadband across the United Kingdom. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAvanti welcomes the government\u2019s recognition that there is still a very large population in the United Kingdom without access to reasonable quality broadband. The 530 million pound ($836.1 million) penciled in potentially to finance new projects in the next five years obviously goes nowhere near the 30 billion pound cost ($47.3 billion) of fibering all United Kingdom homes, but with the imminent arrival of Hylas 1 and its 10Mb satellite broadband available to every home in the United Kingdom, there are now cost effective options available to the consumer,\u201d Williams said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-22-10] U.K. satellite ISP Avanti Communications\u2019 Hylas 1, the first of its next-generation broadband satellites, is slated for launch Nov. 25th after the spacecraft arrived at Arianespace\u2019s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, Oct. 20. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On-site preparations for the launch on an Ariane 5 are underway, and Avanti recently added broadband services contracts with [&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-85966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85966"}],"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=85966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}