{"id":23146,"date":"2015-06-17T19:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23146"},"modified":"2015-06-17T19:31:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:31:43","slug":"will-globe-wide-high-speed-internet-become-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/06\/will-globe-wide-high-speed-internet-become-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Will globe-wide high-speed internet become a reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Globe-wide high-speed internet would truly be a boon for boaters, cruisers, and others who can&#8217;t be reached by a cable. Bill Gates tried in the &#8217;90s until the price tag exploded, Facebook gave up on its recent plans, and LightSquared&#8217;s attempt was squashed when its transmissions were found to interfere with GPS.\u00a0The founder of SpaceX may have a solution \u2013 plus he has spacecraft! From a Washington Post article:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Elon Musk\u2019s space company has asked the federal government for permission to begin testing on an ambitious project to beam Internet service from space, a significant step forward for an initiative that could create another major competitor to Comcast, AT&amp;T and other telecom companies. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterwayguide.com\/latest-news\/news\/5210\/will-globe-wide-high-speed-internet-be-a-reality\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globe-wide high-speed internet would truly be a boon for boaters, cruisers, and others who can&#8217;t be reached by a cable. Bill Gates tried in the &#8217;90s until the price tag exploded, Facebook gave up on its recent plans, and LightSquared&#8217;s attempt was squashed when its transmissions were found to interfere with GPS.\u00a0The founder of SpaceX may have a solution \u2013 plus he has spacecraft! From a Washington Post article: Elon Musk\u2019s space company has asked the federal government for permission to begin testing on an ambitious project to beam Internet service from space, a significant step forward for an initiative that could create another major competitor to Comcast, AT&amp;T and other telecom companies. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23148,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23146\/revisions\/23148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}