{"id":550261,"date":"2006-09-21T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T12:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550261-high-speed-internet-access-to-the-amazon.html"},"modified":"2006-09-21T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T12:14:46","slug":"high-speed-internet-access-to-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550261-high-speed-internet-access-to-the-amazon.html","title":{"rendered":"High-speed Internet access to the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The project was billed as part of an Intel Corporation &quot;World Ahead Program&quot;, in which it would spend more than a billion US dollars to accelerate Internet and computer access in developing countries. Intel predicted that the &quot;digital transformation&quot; of Parintins would improve health care and education for the approximately 114,000 residents of the town on an island in the Amazon River. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We&#8217;ve been blessed with this project,&quot; Parintins Mayor Frank Bi Garcia said in a release. &quot;We&#8217;re really isolated and don&#8217;t have the conditions to receive the Internet with cables.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Access to wireless Internet is a great pleasure for us. This project will prepare this generation for the future.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Intel said it worked with the Brazilian government, business and education officials to make wireless Internet nodes at a healthcare center, public schools, a community center and a university. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Technology has expanded what is possible in Parintins,&quot; Intel Chairman Craig Barrett said at a dedication ceremony in the Amazon rain forest. &quot;It is now a place where wireless broadband links to the Internet bring the expertise of specialists, sophisticated medical imaging and the worlds libraries to a community reachable only by airplane or boat.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Intel said it planned to extend wireless Internet access to &quot;millions of citizens&quot; in Latin America and to train more than a million technology teachers there. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Santa Clara, California, based Intel planned similar projects for isolated communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East where electricity and telecommunications were unreliable. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Intel recently announced major layoffs in a drive to reduce costs and improve efficiency in the face of competition from California rival Advanced Micro Devices. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>INet-Bridge<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US computer-chip giant Intel unveiled a plan to build a wireless network in the Brazil town of Parintins to give the Amazon rain forest community high-speed Internet access. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}