{"id":145105,"date":"2016-11-30T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=145105"},"modified":"2016-11-30T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:03:08","slug":"mtn-ties-up-smart-village-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/145105\/mtn-ties-up-smart-village-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN ties up Smart Village acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN SA\u2019s acquisition of Smart Village comes\u00a0into effect today, making Smart Village a subsidiary of MTN.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said\u00a0the\u00a0deal will expand its\u00a0fibre-to-the home footprint across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmart Village has an expansive fibre network that passes 29,000 homes and stands in Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smart Village will give MTN a presence in several gated estates and apartment blocks, business parks, and shopping malls.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said the deal will also bolster MTN\u2019s presence in the enterprise space by giving MTN Business the ability to provide wholesale access to 4,228 enterprises passed by Smart Village.<\/p>\n<p>It will also ensure\u00a0savings for customers as traffic gets routed via MTN\u2019s backhaul infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said the deal will not\u00a0impact any Smart Village employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/99530\/mtn-buys-fibre-to-the-home-player-from-multichoice\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTN buys fibre-to-the-home player from MultiChoice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN SA\u2019s acquisition of Smart Village comes into effect today, making Smart Village a subsidiary of MTN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":71570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,28],"class_list":["post-145105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145105","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=145105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145107,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145105\/revisions\/145107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}