{"id":243587,"date":"2018-05-10T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=243587"},"modified":"2018-05-10T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:43:31","slug":"liquid-telecom-announces-partnership-with-china-telecom-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/243587\/liquid-telecom-announces-partnership-with-china-telecom-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Telecom announces partnership with China Telecom Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China Telecom Global (CTG) and Liquid Telecom have announced a partnership which will see the two companies will collaborate to provide Africa and Asia with industry-leading network solutions and services.<\/p>\n<p>CTG, a subsidiary of China Telecom Corporation Limited, is one of the world\u2019s largest providers of integrated telecommunication services,<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Thursday (10 May), Liquid Telecom said that the agreement will enable both companies to serve their respective enterprise and wholesale customers with extended network coverage across some of the fastest growing economies in the two regions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China Telecom Global has already established a Point-of-Presence (PoP) at Liquid Telecom\u2019s East Africa Data Centre in Nairobi, and will establish further PoPs at its data centre facilities in Johannesburg and Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CTG and Liquid Telecom will also continue to explore joint service opportunities under the partnership,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our combined service and network capabilities will be of great value to multinationals operating in some of the fastest growing economies across Africa and Asia-Pacific,\u201d added Willem Marais, group chief business development officer at Liquid Telecom.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/236847\/liquid-telecoms-appoints-new-ceo-for-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liquid Telecom appoints new CEO for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Telecom Global (CTG) and Liquid Telecom have announced a partnership which will see the two companies will collaborate to provide Africa and Asia with industry-leading network solutions and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":243589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[26,5085],"class_list":["post-243587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-headline","tag-liquid-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243587","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=243587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243593,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243587\/revisions\/243593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}