{"id":225419,"date":"2018-02-14T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=225419"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T08:14:07","slug":"gconnect-acquired-by-exmile-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/225419\/gconnect-acquired-by-exmile-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"GConnect acquired by Exmile Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exmile Technologies has purchased GConnect, based on an approved business rescue plan.<\/p>\n<p>The WirelessG management team, trading under the brand GConnect,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/228155-g-connect-management-makes-offer-to-buy-the-business.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>previously made an offer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to buy the business in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Following the purchase of the going concern of WirelessG from its creditors, GConnect is now owned by Exmile Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>GConnect offers Wi-Fi hotspot services to businesses and wholesale Wi-Fi services to ISPs, and has installed Wi-Fi services for multiple major brands.<\/p>\n<p>GConnect also has a current network footprint of over 600 Wi-Fi hotspots across South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company and its employees are extremely thrilled that the acquisition is now finalised, so that we can continue to focus on what is important to us \u2013 to provide a reliable managed Wi-Fi service that our customers can trust,\u201d said Exmile Technologies CEO Jan van der Nest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our key objectives as a company is to increase our Wi-Fi hotspot footprint rapidly over the next couple of years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also completed the development of its Social Wi-Fi and Analytics software, where Wi-Fi hotspot customers can engage with consumers who have used their Wi-Fi service.<\/p>\n<p>Exmile is owned by its management team, which includes Van der Nest, CTO Henk Badenhorst, COO Braam Linde, and CFO Hazel Badenhorst.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/197264\/rescue-plan-for-g-connect-as-management-makes-buyout-offer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rescue plan for GConnect as management makes buyout offer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exmile Technologies has purchased GConnect, based on an approved business rescue plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":225423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882,9878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225419","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=225419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225431,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225419\/revisions\/225431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}