{"id":6540,"date":"2008-02-24T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T08:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/japans-highspeed-internet-satellite.html"},"modified":"2008-02-24T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T08:32:13","slug":"japans-highspeed-internet-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/japans-highspeed-internet-satellite.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s High-Speed Internet Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/satellite1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While some of us in the US may be proud that we are able to surf the web at speeds of 10 Mbps or even a bit more, in Japan they are striving for speeds of 1.2 Gbps or 120 times as fast!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday in fact japan successfully launched a satellite known as Kizuna to provide web surfing at these speeds.<\/p>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t help but ask the following. If we know that broadband access roughly equates to a country&#8217;s ability to compete effectively in a global marketplace, then how do Americans allow other countries beat them at such things.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it is too early to know if this satellite will be successful at its mission but I would imagine our politicians should be in closed door meetings all weekend trying to figure out how to catch up or even leapfrog such news.<\/p>\n<p>So US politicians, please&#8230; Our children and their children need the absolute fastest broadband speeds to remain competitive. I hope we are devoting funds to ensure we are competing effectively in this area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2008\/02\/23\/3287380.htm\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some of us in the US may be proud that we are able to surf the web at speeds of 10 Mbps or even a bit more, in Japan they are striving for speeds of 1.2 Gbps or 120 times as fast! Yesterday in fact japan successfully launched a satellite known as Kizuna to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,172,199,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}