{"id":347664,"date":"2019-10-21T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=347664"},"modified":"2019-10-21T10:37:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T08:37:28","slug":"zulu-king-set-to-launch-new-mobile-network-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/347664\/zulu-king-set-to-launch-new-mobile-network-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Zulu King set to launch new mobile network in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Goodwill Zwelithini plans to launch a new mobile network in South Africa on 1 November &#8211;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bayedemobile.co.za\/\"> Bayede Mobile<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bayede is a Zulu salutation that translates to &#8216;hail the king&#8217;, and is already used in brands that have received the King Zwelithini\u2019s seal of approval \u2013 such as Bayede! Wines.<\/p>\n<p>The company was born from a strategic partnership forged between King Zwelithini, the founders of JR Capital, and a &#8216;well-established Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) with both local and international expertise&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a new and affordable mobile network for the people of South Africa, it is the vision of Bayede Mobile to enable communities to connect easily at reasonable rates, empowering a generation of South Africans navigating the technological era, where connecting to friends, family and information can be accessed by all,&#8221; the group said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bayede Mobile will be strategically positioned to leverage existing infrastructure of some of South Africa\u2019s biggest mobile networks, thereby bringing reliable connectivity, at an affordable flat rate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sowetanlive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-10-21-zulu-king-to-launch-mobile-network\/\">The Sowetan<\/a><\/strong>, director of Bayede Mobile Jane Nkadimang said that network will be hosted on Cell C and MTN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will soon have marketing activations in various villages and towns in KZN. We encourage communities to come together and form social groupings so that they can benefit,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the best thing is that whatever profit that we make will be ploughed back to the community through various community development projects such as clinics and learning centres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/347066\/mtn-to-relaunch-mobile-money-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MTN to relaunch mobile money service in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Goodwill Zwelithini will launch a new mobile network in South Africa on 1 November &#8211;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bayedemobile.co.za\/\"> Bayede Mobile<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":347668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[13762,26],"class_list":["post-347664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-bayede-mobile","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347664","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=347664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347676,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347664\/revisions\/347676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}