{"id":113127,"date":"2016-02-17T16:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=113127"},"modified":"2016-02-17T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:53:46","slug":"free-fibre-for-sa-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/113127\/free-fibre-for-sa-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Free fibre for SA schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vumatel has announced that it will provide free uncapped gigabit per second fibre to every school it passes as it deploys its network.<\/p>\n<p>It successfully piloted the project with three schools: Greenside High, Ho\u00ebrskool Linden and Parkhurst Primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe response has been overwhelmingly positive,\u201d Vumatel said.<\/p>\n<p>Each school will be provided with a dedicated 1 Gigabit per second line, and will be able to choose from a variety of Internet service providers for free uncapped internet connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C, Cool Ideas, and Vox Telecoms are on board with the project, with others set to join the initiative soon.<\/p>\n<p>Vumatel has already started introducing fibre to additional schools and aims to provide free high speed connectivity to approximately 80 schools this year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vumatel<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/101984\/vumatel-adds-5-more-fibrehoods\/\">Vumatel adds 5 more fibrehoods<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/101076\/investec-acquires-stake-in-vumatel\/\">Investec acquires stake in Vumatel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/87222\/new-fibre-to-the-home-sites-identified-for-joburg\/\">New fibre-to-the-home sites identified for Joburg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vumatel has announced that it will provide free uncapped gigabit per second fibre to every school it passes as it deploys its network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":87228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[25,8081],"class_list":["post-113127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-vumatel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113127","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=113127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113129,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113127\/revisions\/113129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}