{"id":699645,"date":"2023-06-28T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=699645"},"modified":"2023-06-28T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:37:43","slug":"fnb-partners-with-mtn-to-boost-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/699645\/fnb-partners-with-mtn-to-boost-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB partners with MTN to boost mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Banking group FNB has announced that it has entered into a &#8220;strategic network collaboration&#8221; with mobile operator MTN to boost its mobile virtual network operator (MNVO), FNB Connect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bank launched its MVNO on Cell C&#8217;s network in June 2015, and confirmed that it will continue to use those services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cell C has, over the years, switched off all its tower infrastructure and handed over the building and operation of its cellular network to MTN &#8211; a project which was <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/497185-cell-c-finishes-switching-off-its-towers.html\">completed this month<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In turn, MTN will provide Cell C with access to a \u201cvirtual radio access network\u201d for its prepaid and MVNO subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mybroadband wp-block-embed-mybroadband\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TgI5G0vKPf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/497185-cell-c-finishes-switching-off-its-towers.html\">Cell C finishes switching off its towers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; 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he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MTN said the partnership is part of the group&#8217;s broader efforts to support MVNOs &#8211; and the deal with FNB serves as an endorsement of the network&#8217;s reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/693863\/fnb-looking-to-expand-smart-id-and-passport-branches-in-south-africa\/\">FNB looking to expand Smart ID and passport branches in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB is partnering with MTN to expand its mobile services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":643559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699645","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=699645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699655,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699645\/revisions\/699655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}