{"id":44199,"date":"2013-08-14T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=44199"},"modified":"2013-08-15T08:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T06:41:57","slug":"date-set-for-neotel-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/44199\/date-set-for-neotel-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Date set for Neotel launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Neotel\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2383-Neotel\">Neotel<\/a> sent out invitations to media today (14 August 2013), inviting them to the launch of its Long Term Evolution (<a title=\"LTE\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2608-LTE-Long-Term-Evolution\">LTE<\/a>) network on 21 August 2013.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the network operator revealed earlier this year that it plans to launch commercial LTE services in September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Neotel boss <a title=\"Sunil Joshi\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2967-Sunil-Joshi\">Sunil Joshi<\/a> previously said that it would start its commercial offering in a concentrated area of Gauteng with 50 base stations, using the 1,800MHz frequency.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours have been swirling around the industry that Neotel is up for sale and that mobile network operators have expressed interest in the company.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, two independent industry sources close to the negotiations told MyBroadband that Vodacom is performing due diligence on Neotel.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Neotel<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom closer to Neotel purchase: sources\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/43698\/vodacom-closer-to-neotel-purchase-sources\/\"><strong>Vodacom closer to Neotel purchase: sources<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Neotel to launch LTE in September\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/38942\/neotel-to-launch-lte-in-september\/\"><strong>Neotel to launch LTE in September<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why buy Neotel?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/38752\/why-buy-neotel\/\"><strong>Why buy Neotel?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom tight-lipped over Neotel rumour\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/38204\/vodacom-tight-lipped-over-neotel-rumour\/\"><strong>Vodacom tight-lipped over Neotel rumour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom, MTN courting Neotel purchase?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/38004\/vodacom-mtn-courting-neotel-purchase\/\"><strong>Vodacom, MTN courting Neotel purchase?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Neotel turns EBITDA positive\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/37971-neotel-turns-ebitda-positive.html\">Neotel turns EBITDA positive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neotel has set a launch date for its Long Term Evolution network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[26,525,261],"class_list":["post-44199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-lte","tag-neotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44199","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=44199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44222,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44199\/revisions\/44222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}