{"id":122040,"date":"2019-04-05T17:12:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=241706"},"modified":"2019-04-05T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:12:39","slug":"amazon-plots-satellite-internet-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/05\/amazon-plots-satellite-internet-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon plots satellite internet play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tAmazon joined the broadband space race, aiming to launch a network of communications satellites to provide internet connectivity to underserved areas around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>In filings with the International Telecommunications Union uncovered by GeekWire, the company detailed plans to deploy a constellation of 3,236 satellites into low Earth orbit as part of its so-called Project Kuiper.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a statement to GeekWire the effort is a long-term project aimed at delivering \u201clow-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity\u201d to \u201ctens of millions of people\u201d in unserved and underserved communities.<\/p>\n<p>The move appears set to complement Amazon Web Services\u2019 Ground Station service, which provides the necessary terrestrial facilities to allow satellites to communicate data to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>However, approval from the US Federal Communications Commission will be necessary before Amazon can move forward with the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon joins a number of companies working toward similar space-oriented broadband goals, including OneWeb [1], SpaceX and Facebook, which Wired reported turned to a satellite venture after scrapping its drone-based broadband effort [2] in 2018.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/oneweb-completes-largest-funding-round-to-date\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/facebook-scraps-connectivity-drone-project\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon joined the broadband space race, aiming to launch a network of communications satellites to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/amazon-plots-satellite-internet-play\/\">Amazon plots satellite internet play<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/05\/amazon-plots-satellite-internet-play\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,3862,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-vKo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122041,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122040\/revisions\/122041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}