{"id":54566,"date":"2014-03-19T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=54566"},"modified":"2014-04-17T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:53:29","slug":"vodacom-outlines-gauteng-lte-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/54566\/vodacom-outlines-gauteng-lte-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom outlines Gauteng LTE plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom aims to ramp up its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Gauteng in the coming financial year, with a 555 new sites in the province, up from 140 in the prior year.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it is currently adding 22 LTE sites per day to its network, with 200 expected in April alone.<\/p>\n<p>Neville van Niekerk, Vodacom managing executive for Gauteng operations, told a media gathering in Sandton that in the new financial year Vodacom aims to ramp up capex spend to R9 billion, from around R7 billion before.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Vodacom\u2019s data growth in Gauteng is up 77% on its network year over year, with voice up 13%.<\/p>\n<p>The executive said that Vodacom will add 240 new 3G sites in Gauteng in the financial year 2014\/15, down from 471 in the prior period which ends at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>The group will add 180 new 2G sites, down from 281 2G sites in the prior period.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom launches LTE in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/23950\/vodacom-launches-lte-in-sa\/\"><strong>Vodacom launches LTE in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom hunts 30,000 SME clients\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/39488\/vodacom-hunts-30000-sme-clients\/\"><strong>Vodacom hunts 30,000 SME clients<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom aims to ramp up its LTE network in Gauteng in the coming financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-54566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54566","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=54566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55884,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54566\/revisions\/55884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}