{"id":231331,"date":"2018-03-13T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=231331"},"modified":"2018-03-13T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:37:08","slug":"sqwidnet-partners-with-activate-group-for-iot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/231331\/sqwidnet-partners-with-activate-group-for-iot\/","title":{"rendered":"SqwidNet partners with Activate Group for IoT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SqwidNet has signed a partnership agreement with end-to-end IoT and mobile solutions provider Activate Group.<\/p>\n<p>SqwidNet is the licensed IoT network operator for Sigfox in South Africa, and currently reaches 81% of the county\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will see Activate Group roll out 14 pilot projects in the retail and logistic industries, adding an estimated 100,000 IoT devices to SqwidNet\u2019s network by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a significant milestone for us,\u201d said Activate Group CEO Rodney Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen significant interest in our IoT solutions in the market and through this partnership, we will be able to bring them to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnering with Activate Group enables us to leverage on their capability and existing IoT platform solutions to further the digitalisation efforts that are underway in South Africa,\u201d said SqwidNet CEO Reshaad Sha.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/207435\/vox-partners-with-sqwidnet-for-iot-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vox partners with SqwidNet for IoT network<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SqwidNet has signed a partnership agreement with end-to-end IoT and mobile solutions provider Activate Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":201528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231331","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=231331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231339,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231331\/revisions\/231339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}