{"id":6413,"date":"2009-10-01T10:51:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2009-10-01T10:50:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:50:47","slug":"viasat-buys-wildblue-for-568-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6413","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Buys Wildblue For $568 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/viasat_logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/viasat_logo.jpg','popup','width=157,height=60,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/viasat_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"38\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Viasat Logo\" \/><\/a><em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> based satellite communication system vendor <strong>ViaSat<\/strong> has announced that it &#8220;has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WildBlue Communications, a privately held satellite broadband service provider, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $568 million,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multichannel.com\/article\/356401-ViaSat_To_Acquire_WildBlue_For_568_Million.php\" target=\"_blank\">Multichannel.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By integrating ViaSat-1 and its ground network technology into the WildBlue operational and distribution platform, we believe we can meaningfully reduce our operational execution risks,&#8221; ViaSat chairman and CEO Mark Dankberg said in announcing the deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The transaction is expected to close in the quarter ending April 2, 2010, which is the end of ViaSat&#8217;s fiscal year. The transaction is not subject to a vote of the ViaSat shareholders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multichannel.com\/article\/356401-ViaSat_To_Acquire_WildBlue_For_568_Million.php\" target=\"_blank\">Multichannel.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan based satellite communication system vendor ViaSat has announced that it &#8220;has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WildBlue Communications, a privately held satellite broadband service provider, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $568 million,&#8221; according to a story on Multichannel.com. &#8220;By integrating ViaSat-1 and its ground network technology into the WildBlue operational and distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6414,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions\/6414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}