{"id":196180,"date":"2017-09-01T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=196180"},"modified":"2017-09-01T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T14:22:37","slug":"vumatel-to-launch-uncapped-fibre-in-townships-for-r89-per-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/196180\/vumatel-to-launch-uncapped-fibre-in-townships-for-r89-per-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Vumatel to launch uncapped fibre in townships for R89 per month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vumatel has stated it will launch 100Mbps uncapped fibre services in townships in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The fibre service will provide a 100Mbps download speed and 10Mbps upload speed. The maximum contention ratio will be 20:1.<\/p>\n<p>The fibre provider posted on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vumatel\/posts\/2022943731258318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Facebook page<\/strong><\/a> that the service will cost R89 per month \u2013 with the first phase of the project set for\u00a0Alexandra in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The project is set to start before the end of 2017, with the aim of providing\u00a060,000 homes with fibre before March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre in the township will be\u00a0aerial, as opposed to underground placement which takes place in city suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Vumatel said it will also build public Wi-Fi hotspots in the township, offering free Internet connectivity, and will continue to offer\u00a0free 1Gbps Internet to schools it passes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/185751\/link-africa-offloads-ftth-assets-to-vumatel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link Africa offloads FTTH assets to Vumatel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vumatel has stated it will launch 100Mbps uncapped fibre services in townships in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":87228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196180","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=196180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196184,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196180\/revisions\/196184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}