{"id":44555,"date":"2013-08-21T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T10:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=44555"},"modified":"2013-08-21T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T10:49:17","slug":"neotel-launches-uncapped-lte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/44555\/neotel-launches-uncapped-lte\/","title":{"rendered":"Neotel launches uncapped LTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Neotel\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2383-Neotel\">Neotel<\/a> has announced the launch of its fixed wireless Long Term Evolution (<a title=\"LTE\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2608-LTE-Long-Term-Evolution\">LTE<\/a>) service at an event at its headquarters in Midrand today (21 August 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Neotel has priced the service between R999 and R2,899 per month, at speeds between 2Mbps and 10Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers will pay a R1,500 non-recurring installation fee, and then a monthly fee depending on the speeds they want:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2Mbps at R999\/month;<\/li>\n<li>5Mbps at R1,799\/month; and<\/li>\n<li>10Mbps at R2,899\/month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The service is uncapped and unshaped, Neotel said.<\/p>\n<p>The launch comes after the network operator earlier this year revealed that it plans to launch commercial LTE services in September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement accompanying the launch, Neotel confirmed that it would start its commercial offering in a concentrated area of Gauteng with 50 base stations, using spectrum on the 1,800MHz band.<\/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 <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1639-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> is performing due diligence on Neotel.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Neotel<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom CEO\u2019s strategy explains Neotel acquisition plans\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/44356\/vodacom-ceos-strategy-explains-neotel-acquisition-plans\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom CEO\u2019s strategy explains Neotel acquisition plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom last man standing in Neotel acquisition?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/44291\/vodacom-left-standing-in-neotel-acquisition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom last man standing in Neotel acquisition?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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 announced the launch of its uncapped and unshaped Long Term Evolution (LTE) service.<\/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":[26,5552,261],"class_list":["post-44555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-long-term-evolution-lte","tag-neotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44555","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=44555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44561,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44555\/revisions\/44561"}],"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=44555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}