{"id":10424,"date":"2016-12-19T16:49:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2016-12-19T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T12:49:15","slug":"speedcast-announces-joint-venture-in-ghana-with-oil-and-gas-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2016\/12\/19\/speedcast-announces-joint-venture-in-ghana-with-oil-and-gas-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"SpeedCast announces joint venture in Ghana with oil and gas partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpeedCast International, a global satellite communications and network service provider, announced it has finalised a joint venture in Ghana, strengthening the company\u2019s commitment to provide high quality African coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Under the strategic alliance, SpeedCast, which has a global reputation for its managed network services and worldwide communications network, continues to expand on its commitment to Africa and builds upon the company\u2019s existing presence in Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Kenya and Angola. The move places the company in a prime strategic position to meet Africa\u2019s growing need for high quality communication services over fibre, wireless and satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The joint venture will broaden SpeedCast\u2019s service offerings, increasing reach and reinforcing the company\u2019s expansion within the continent to provide a managed network throughout Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Managing Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedcast.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpeedCast Ghana<\/a>, Bill Green, stated, \u201cBased on our existing business servicing energy customers offshore in Ghana, along with the anticipated growth in the region, we are delighted to have a local partner with an already extensive oil and gas sector presence. An important part of SpeedCast\u2019s energy strategy is to anticipate oil field trends and proactively build support networks in these countries to ensure we are providing our customers with world-class service and support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now well equipped to expand into Ghana, providing efficient, reliable and cost efficient communications services, whilst underpinning HSE on and offshore and satisfying local content laws, allowing knowledge and technology transfer to Ghanaians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a worldwide network of 40 sales and support offices and 39 teleport operations, SpeedCast has an infrastructure to serve the requirements of customers globally.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpeedCast International, a global satellite communications and network service provider, announced it has finalised a joint venture in Ghana, strengthening the company\u2019s commitment to provide high quality African coverage. Under the strategic alliance, SpeedCast, which has a global reputation for its managed network services and worldwide communications network, continues to expand on its commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[900,399,38,19],"tags":[3028,708,3029,946],"class_list":["post-10424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-more-news","category-networking","category-regional-news","tag-bill-green","tag-ghana","tag-speedcast","tag-west-africa"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}