{"id":196282,"date":"2017-09-04T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T07:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=196282"},"modified":"2017-09-04T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T07:05:59","slug":"vox-launches-lte-a-packages-with-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/196282\/vox-launches-lte-a-packages-with-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox launches LTE-A packages with Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Integrated ICT and telecommunications company, Vox, is expanding its wireless portfolio through the introduction of several broadband internet packages using Rain\u2019s Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) network.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rain, previously Wireless Business Solutions, recently announced the rollout of over 1,500 LTE-A base stations across the country, with the intention of expanding coverage to a total of 2,000 sites by the end of 2017 and 4,000 by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The LTE-A package is a SIM card based service with throughputs of up to 50Mbps, and starting at R549 per month.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Vox will initially offer three LTE-A packages: a Basic Plan with 55GB of data, an Advanced Plan with 85GB of data an Ultimate Plan with 120GB, and 220GB Plan and a 330GB plan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Customers will be able to purchase top-up data vouchers ranging from 1GB to 20GB via the company website, ranging from R10 to R200.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It is a capped service, which gives customers control over their spending and ensures that there is no bill shock at the end of the month,&#8221; said Phiana de Villiers, product manager for wireless at Vox.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/193792\/vox-launches-toolbox-to-help-start-ups-and-smmes-create-an-online-presence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vox launches \u2018toolbox\u2019 to help startups and SMMEs create an online presence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrated ICT and telecommunications company, Vox, is expanding its wireless portfolio through the introduction of several broadband internet packages using Rain\u2019s Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":67922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[11939,4369],"class_list":["post-196282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-rain","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196282","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=196282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196286,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196282\/revisions\/196286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}