{"id":140729,"date":"2016-10-20T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=140729"},"modified":"2016-10-20T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T09:05:29","slug":"fibre-to-the-home-group-vumatel-buys-fibrehoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/140729\/fibre-to-the-home-group-vumatel-buys-fibrehoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Fibre-to-the-home group Vumatel buys Fibrehoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vumatel has acquired\u00a0Fibrehoods, with the terms of the deal not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe acquisition will help us accelerate and build a connected South Africa faster,\u201d said\u00a0Niel Schoeman, CEO of Vumatel.<\/p>\n<p>Vumatel said it plans to complete its fibre infrastructure roll-out across Johannesburg by Q3 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fibrehoods network compliments Vumatel\u2019s network footprint with little overlap.\u00a0Through Fibrehoods, we gain more capability to expand into new suburbs quicker. There are also ancillary benefits that we gain from economies of scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0companies will operate as separate businesses until integration is deemed appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of Fibrehoods allows Vumatel to expand its fibre footprint into the following suburbs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atholl<\/li>\n<li>Beverley Gardens<\/li>\n<li>Bordeaux North<\/li>\n<li>Bordeaux South<\/li>\n<li>Bryanston Ext. 3<\/li>\n<li>Craighall<\/li>\n<li>Craighall Park<\/li>\n<li>Dunkeld<\/li>\n<li>Dunkeld West<\/li>\n<li>Elton Hill<\/li>\n<li>Illovo<\/li>\n<li>Inanda<\/li>\n<li>Lyme Park<\/li>\n<li>Norwood<\/li>\n<li>Oaklands<\/li>\n<li>Orchards<\/li>\n<li>Rivonia<\/li>\n<li>Savoy<\/li>\n<li>Vandia Grove<\/li>\n<li>Waverley<\/li>\n<li>Winston Ridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vumatel<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/113127\/free-fibre-for-sa-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free fibre for SA schools<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vumatel has acquired Fibrehoods, with the terms of the deal not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":87228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-140729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140729","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=140729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140731,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140729\/revisions\/140731"}],"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=140729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}