{"id":185929,"date":"2017-07-18T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T08:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=185929"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T08:56:23","slug":"seacom-in-high-speed-fibre-push-in-joburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/185929\/seacom-in-high-speed-fibre-push-in-joburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Seacom in high-speed fibre push for Joburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom is bringing its high-speed fibre Internet access services to business and home users in the southern areas of Johannesburg, starting with the rollout of 8 kilometres of fibre in Meyersdal, Alberton.<\/p>\n<p>The last-mile fibre network will pass several businesses, residential developments and shopping malls in the area, it said.<\/p>\n<p>This falls in line with Seacom\u2019s plans to rapidly extend the reach of its fibre network to more parts of South Africa, including areas that are currently underserviced by last-mile fibre operators.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first phase in Seacom\u2019s plan to roll high-speed fibre services out in the greater Johannesburg area.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it will partner with various resellers to address the home, retail and business markets across the region. These resellers are taking pre-orders for fibre Internet access, with services expected to go live before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/175777\/seacom-reveals-further-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seacom reveals further expansion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom is bringing its high-speed fibre Internet access services to business and home users in the southern areas of Johannesburg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,39],"class_list":["post-185929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185929","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=185929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185945,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185929\/revisions\/185945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}