{"id":189099,"date":"2017-07-31T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T08:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=189099"},"modified":"2017-07-31T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T08:21:58","slug":"ignite-targets-small-business-with-new-lte-a-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/189099\/ignite-targets-small-business-with-new-lte-a-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignite targets small business with new LTE-A offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignite, an internet and communication technology services provider focused on South African SMEs, says it has added LTE-A services via the Rain network to its connectivity offering.<\/p>\n<p>Ignite is the result of three companies that merged in April 2016: IS Ignite, MWEB Business and the IS SME Business Unit.<\/p>\n<p>The group said that SMEs will be able to enjoy speeds of up to 100Mbps, depending on their distance from the nearest tower and congestion on the network.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that there are currently 750 active base stations in Rain\u2019s LTE-A network, which extends across South Africa\u2019s major metropolitan centres, and this number is expected to reach 5,000 base stations as early as 2018.<\/p>\n<p>SMEs can select one of three month-to-month packages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LTE-A Starter &#8211; 55GB LTE-A for R549 per month<\/li>\n<li>LTE-A Advanced &#8211; 85GB LTE-A for R799 per month<\/li>\n<li>LTE-A Premium &#8211; 120GB LTE-A for R999 per month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ignite\u2019s first 250 LTE-A customers will pay just R999 for installation and setup fee, including a Huawei B618 router, discounted from the standard fee of R1,999.<\/p>\n<p>Top-up data is available via Ignite\u2019s self-service portal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 GB &#8211; R35<\/li>\n<li>2 GB &#8211; R59<\/li>\n<li>3 GB &#8211; R80<\/li>\n<li>5 GB &#8211; R115<\/li>\n<li>10 GB &#8211; R205<\/li>\n<li>20 GB &#8211; R345<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ignite stressed that there is no contractual lock-in as LTE-A connectivity is billed month-to-month.<\/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>Ignite, an internet and communication technology services provider focused on South African SMEs, says it has added LTE-A services via the Rain network to its connectivity offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[12085,11939],"class_list":["post-189099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-ignite","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189099","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=189099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189109,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189099\/revisions\/189109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}