{"id":44834,"date":"2013-08-27T15:39:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T13:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=44834"},"modified":"2013-08-27T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T13:41:39","slug":"ellies-unveils-new-consumer-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/44834\/ellies-unveils-new-consumer-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellies unveils new consumer division"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ellies<\/a>, the JSE-listed\u00a0electronics distributor, has unveiled its new consumer centric\u00a0arm – Ellies Connect – which will\u00a0position the\u00a0company in the satellite broadband and free-to-air TV space.<\/p>\n

Ellies Connect comprises three different, but converged elements namely: entertainment, hardware and connectivity.<\/p>\n

Through partnerships with Skyevine, a satellite service provider, and iBurst, Ellies Connect offers satellite broadband to consumers as an alternative to 3G and ADSL, providing connectivity to the Internet anywhere in the country.<\/p>\n

Satellite broadband beams the Internet from a satellite to a dish installed at the subscriber\u2019s home. It delivers speeds of 10 megabits per second (Mbps) downstream – about 39 times faster than a normal dial-up service, Ellies said.<\/p>\n

It said that, through its partnership with iBurst, Ellies Connect users will be able to access fast internet, Fax 2 Email, iSMS starter, and a Voice Line Service, allowing users to make and receive calls from their computer or from a dedicated voice-over-internet telephone.<\/p>\n

Ellies said that its new company will “shortly” be able to offer consumers entertainment components including Digital Terrestrial Television, (DTT) and Platco, a new digital TV-to-home offering.<\/p>\n

OpenView HD is a new free-to-air satellite TV broadcaster that is scheduled to launch in South Africa during October 2013.<\/p>\n

More on Ellies<\/h3>\n

Platco outlines OpenView channel plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ellies talks up \u201cfree-to-view\u201d TV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New free TV operator in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ellies hopeful over DTT contract<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ellies delivers strong earnings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ellies has unveiled its new consumer centric arm, Ellies Connect, which will position the company in the satellite broadband and free-to-air TV space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[2092,557,26,75,6341,3201],"class_list":["post-44834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-dtt","tag-ellies","tag-headline","tag-iburst","tag-platco","tag-skyevine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44834","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=44834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44844,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44834\/revisions\/44844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}