{"id":16980,"date":"2012-07-03T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16980"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T07:38:03","slug":"internet-solutions-in-tower-sharing-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/16980\/internet-solutions-in-tower-sharing-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Solutions in tower deal with ATC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Internet Solutions and ATC South Africa have signed a five-year contract under which the former will use ATC South Africa\u2019s towers to expand its delivery of current wireless solutions and position it to offer Long Term Evolution (LTE) or 4G broadband services when those are enabled in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the short term, the agreement enables Internet Solutions to extend its IS Wi-Band offering beyond large metros to key markets throughout South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternet Solutions applied for and was granted by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) bandwidth in the 28GHz spectrum that enables it to provide its clients with licensed wireless point to multipoint connectivity facilities and a cost effective bridge to LTE,\u201d the company said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe offering bypasses the current industry impasse around the liberalisation of LTE-capable wireless frequencies in the 2.6GHz and 3.5GHz spectrum to give organisations easily deployed, reliable, fast, secure wireless connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only limitation we had to IS Wi-Band was the number of towers we had access to, most of which were in the major metropolitan areas,\u201d said Internet Solutions Carrier Services executive, Raj Wanniappa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve now removed that limitation by gaining access to ATC South Africa\u2019s nationwide network of towers. We can give any organisation close to an ATC South Africa tower immediate access to wireless capability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IS Wi-Band is capable of transmitting data volumes up to 20Mbps. Because it operates in a regulated, licensed spectrum, interference is eliminated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20Mbps Wi-Band service from IS\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/51825-20mbps-wi-band-service-from-is.html\"><strong>20Mbps Wi-Band service from IS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wireless broadband numbers in SA revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/51377-wireless-broadband-numbers-in-sa-revealed.html\"><strong>Wireless broadband numbers in SA revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"From wireless cowboys to serious broadband providers\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/47482-from-wireless-cowboys-to-serious-broadband-providers.html\"><strong>From wireless cowboys to serious broadband providers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Solutions has partnered with ATC South Africa to provide cost effective wireless solutions nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[89,94,26,97,3390,525],"class_list":["post-16980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-atc","tag-dimension-data","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions","tag-long-term-evolution","tag-lte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980","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=16980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16984,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions\/16984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}