{"id":257861,"date":"2018-07-11T12:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=257861"},"modified":"2018-07-12T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T10:42:31","slug":"vodacom-targets-200mbps-fibre-to-the-home-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/257861\/vodacom-targets-200mbps-fibre-to-the-home-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom targets 200Mbps fibre-to-the-home products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom will launch new 200Mbps fibre-to-the-home products in the coming weeks, doubling its current peak speed of 100Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Gary Hart, executive head: managed network and unified communications at Vodacom Business, who was speaking at the 2018 MyBroadband Fibre Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Hart said there is a strong demand for faster connectivity in South Africa, which includes demand from smaller cities and towns.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom has fibre coverage in major SA provinces, including Gauteng, the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, the Eastern Cape, and the Free State.<\/p>\n<p>Hart said Vodacom continues to roll out fibre in these areas and is also focusing on outlying regions \u2013 such as Nelspruit, Witbank, and Polokwane.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ULq5lC0_K98\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not only fibre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the preferred connectivity method for consumers is almost always fibre, Hart said there are other technologies which can fill gaps in the broadband market.<\/p>\n<p>He said consumers require a service \u2013 in this case fast and stable connectivity \u2013 and that fixed-wireless technologies can fulfil these needs in certain cases.<\/p>\n<p>Hart said Vodacom currently has over 18,000 fixed-wireless customers who are very happy with the service which they receive.<\/p>\n<p>These customers are served through a variety of wireless technologies, including microwave and LTE-A.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/244353\/these-graphs-show-how-much-data-the-average-vodacom-customer-uses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These graphs show how much data the average Vodacom customer uses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom will launch new 200Mbps fibre-to-the-home products in the coming weeks, doubling its current peak speed of 100Mbps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":239215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,13209,27],"class_list":["post-257861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mybroadband-fibre-conference","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257861","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=257861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258143,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257861\/revisions\/258143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}