{"id":291576,"date":"2018-12-21T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=291576"},"modified":"2018-12-21T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:30:29","slug":"liquid-telecom-to-build-multi-billion-rand-4g-network-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/291576\/liquid-telecom-to-build-multi-billion-rand-4g-network-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Telecom to build multi-billion rand 4G network in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid Telecom South Africa says that it will establish a multi-billion rand 4G network in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>From early 2019, wholesale roaming services will be made available across Liquid Telecom\u2019s network nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis development will enable us to provide Mobile Network Operators and ISPs with open access to our mobile 4G network,\u201d Liquid Telecom South Africa CEO Reshaad Sha said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing our 1,800MHz spectrum, the network will handle 4G mobile data traffic to meet the needs of the most demanding users across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liquid Telecom has been investing heavily across the continent where it operates Africa\u2019s largest independent fibre network.<\/p>\n<p>Its African network is almost 70,000km in length and linked to more than 600 towns and cities in 13 countries.<\/p>\n<p>This includes the recent completion of Liquid Telecom\u2019s \u2018Cape to Cairo\u2019 network which represents the first direct land-based terrestrial fibre link from Cape Town to Cairo.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/290384\/liquid-telecom-gets-r2-6-billion-funding-boost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liquid Telecom gets R2.6 billion funding boost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid Telecom South Africa says that it will establish a multi-billion rand 4G network in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":195582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[26,5085],"class_list":["post-291576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-headline","tag-liquid-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291576","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=291576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291578,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291576\/revisions\/291578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}