{"id":208411,"date":"2017-11-01T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=208411"},"modified":"2017-11-01T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:14:00","slug":"vodacom-says-narrowband-iot-network-now-commercially-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/208411\/vodacom-says-narrowband-iot-network-now-commercially-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom says NarrowBand IoT network now commercially available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom\u2019s NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network is now operational in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it is the first South African mobile network provider to launch a commercially-available NB-IoT network.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom currently averages 55,000 new IoT connections per month, and expects the commercial rollout of the network to increase the adoption of IoT devices.<\/p>\n<p>It has also opened an IoT laboratory to enable the development and deployment of IoT devices and technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready to on-board customers, partners, and developers who are in a position to deploy NB-IoT projects,\u201d said Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>The rollout is expected to bring new features to customers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/207669\/vodacom-targets-banking-and-financial-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vodacom targets banking and financial services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom\u2019s NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network is now operational in Gauteng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-208411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208411","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=208411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208427,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208411\/revisions\/208427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}