{"id":179699,"date":"2017-06-15T20:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=179699"},"modified":"2017-06-15T20:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:08:32","slug":"neotel-to-get-a-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/179699\/neotel-to-get-a-name-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Neotel to get a name change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 June, Neotel will change its name to Liquid Telecom, the company announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent to business partners, Liquid Telecom said the name change is part of the company\u2019s plan to consolidate its customers\u2019 experiences into one point of contact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Liquid Telecom, our focus will be pan-African, and our objective is to be the first choice network partner both in South Africa and across the African continent,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that it will continue to invest in its enterprise and consumer services, along with its data centre capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited about the future,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Neotel launched its new \u201cblue\u201d brand in February 2017, which saw the company change its primary colour from orange and add Liquid Telecom to its logo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/169915-liquid-telecom-to-buy-neotel.html\"><strong>In June 2016, Liquid Telecom<\/strong><\/a> entered into an agreement to acquire Neotel for R6.55 billion.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/170631\/liquid-telecom-adds-to-neotel-leadership-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liquid Telecom adds to Neotel leadership team<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 June, Neotel will change its name to Liquid Telecom, the company announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":156818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,7293],"class_list":["post-179699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-liquid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179699","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=179699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179701,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179699\/revisions\/179701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}