{"id":179181,"date":"2017-06-14T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T09:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=179181"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T09:15:57","slug":"rain-appoints-chief-operating-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/179181\/rain-appoints-chief-operating-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain appoints chief operating officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly launched Rain, which offers LTE-Advanced network, has appointed Gareth Tindall as chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p>Tindall will be responsible for all operating divisions across the business.<\/p>\n<p>Tindall\u2019s experience includes sales and marketing director at Dimension Data for 15 years, CEO of Hertz Car Rental, Commissioner for the SA PGA Sunshine Tour, CEO of Kelly Group, and business consultant at Investec.<\/p>\n<p>Rain has to date rolled out over 750 Sites and is on track to meet a target of 2,000 by the end of the year, 5,000 by the end of 2018 and ultimately 10,000 in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Rain has recently partnered with Internet Solutions to deliver its fixed wireless broadband service, \u2018Rain to the Home\u2019 (RttH) as a Fibre or DSL alternative, coined \u2018fibre in the sky\u2019. Internet Solutions will now be offering service providers access to Rain\u2019s LTE-A network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRain is a collaboration of the smartest minds who have been working tirelessly over the past few years to make an LTE-A network a reality, and I look forward to contributing to the growth of the business,\u201d said Rain COO, Gareth Tindall.<\/p>\n<p>In future Rain plans to launch a full mobile data service.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/178609\/internet-solutions-and-rain-to-offer-commercial-lte-a-to-sa-isps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Solutions and Rain to offer commercial LTE-A to SA ISPs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly launched Rain, which offers LTE-Advanced network, has appointed Gareth Tindall as chief operating officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,11939],"class_list":["post-179181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179181","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=179181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179185,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179181\/revisions\/179185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}