{"id":101984,"date":"2015-10-22T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=101984"},"modified":"2015-10-22T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T16:36:48","slug":"vumatel-adds-5-more-fibrehoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/101984\/vumatel-adds-5-more-fibrehoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Vumatel adds 5 more fibrehoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Gauteng suburbs are joining the growing list of Vumatel fibrehoods in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The new suburbs are Emmarentia, Forest Town, Parktown, Gallo Manor, and Melrose.<\/p>\n<p>Vumatel said Northcliff, Sharonlea, Hyde Park, and Olivedale will also get fibre-to-the-home access in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Vumatel network services are available in Parkhurst, Parktown North, Greenside, Killarney, Riviera and Saxonwold, and Parkwood.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Vumatel is currently laying fibre in\u00a0Blairgowrie, Victory Park, Linden, Hurlingham, Glenadrienne, Willowild, Riepen Park, Bryanston and Emmarentia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an extremely exciting period for the company, and we continue to focus on our commitment to deploy affordable, high-speed FTTH to 100,000 homes by the end of 2016,\u201d said Vumatel CEO Niel Schoeman.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on fibre<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Investec acquires stake in Vumatel\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/101076\/investec-acquires-stake-in-vumatel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Investec acquires stake in Vumatel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Fibre players caught Telkom by surprise\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/101102\/fibre-players-caught-telkom-by-surprise\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fibre players caught Telkom by surprise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Joburg wants fibre to reach beyond rich areas\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/100256\/joburg-wants-fibre-to-reach-beyond-rich-areas\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Joburg wants fibre to reach beyond rich areas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Gauteng suburbs are joining the growing list of Vumatel fibrehoods in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":87226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[25,1622,8081],"class_list":["post-101984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-fibre","tag-vumatel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101986,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101984\/revisions\/101986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}