{"id":6299,"date":"2008-12-10T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T05:50:00","slug":"bandwidth-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/6299-bandwidth-for-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Bandwidth for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intelsat New Dawn is one of a few satellite projects announced in recent months that are aimed at bringing affordable telecoms access to Africa. <\/p>\n<p>In September, Google announced it would back a satellite project to provide internet access to 3 billion people in emerging markets such as Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The project is a partnership with HSBC and the Liberty Group. <\/p>\n<p>The companies have begun producing 16 low-cost satellites, which will be linked to ground stations, such as cellular towers. The satellite is expected to go live in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Another satellite that is expected to launch next March is Sumbandila. The satellite, built by SunSpace, will be optimised to take scientific images of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=149769\">African satellite discussion <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Business Report<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three new satellite projects for Africa <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}