{"id":126743,"date":"2016-06-13T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=126743"},"modified":"2016-06-13T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:44:16","slug":"durban-to-get-free-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/126743\/durban-to-get-free-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban to get free Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"_dwd st s std\">eThekwini<\/span> Municipality says it will roll out free Wi-Fi in different public access hot spots, targeting rural areas, townships and areas near universities.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced by Mayor James Nxumalo on 31 May, when he delivered the City\u2019s R41.6 billion budget for the 2016\/17 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>The project will be rolled out in different phases, beginning with the pilot phase. This phase includes the laying of fibre optic cable.<\/p>\n<p>About R30 million has been set aside for the project in the next financial year. The data limit will begin at 250 megabytes a day per device, in the pilot phase.<\/p>\n<p>Nxumalo said the City has rolled out over 1,500 kilometres of fibre optic cables.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has enabled the City to connect all public facilities and to provide free Wi-Fi in all municipal libraries. Before the end of June we expect to launch free Wi-Fi in major townships, rural areas and areas around universities or where there is a high concentration of students,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nxumalo said the City plans to set up 750 Wi-Fi access points within the next three years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Wi-Fi in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/90848\/eastern-cape-to-get-free-wi-fi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eastern Cape to get free Wi-Fi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/123351\/fnb-reveals-new-look-branches-with-free-wi-fi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FNB reveals new-look branches with free Wi-Fi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/102541\/one-million-people-use-tshwanes-free-wi-fi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>One million people use Tshwane\u2019s free Wi-Fi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eThekwini Municipality says it will roll out free Wi-Fi in different public access hot spots, targeting rural areas, townships and areas near universities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":81937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-126743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126743","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126745,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126743\/revisions\/126745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}