{"id":8373,"date":"2012-03-26T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2012-03-26T12:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:41:56","slug":"mtn-expands-further-into-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/8373\/mtn-expands-further-into-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN expands further into Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\" target=\"_blank\">MTN Group<\/a> (MTN) announced today (26 March 2012) that it has been awarded a universal licence to operate in Benin, and has that it has launched 3G services in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; further expanding the company&#8217;s operations in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed on Thursday, 22 March 2012, that MTN had been granted the licence to provide 3G coverage in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; services which MTN Cote d&#8217;Ivoire CEO, Wim Vanhelleputte, says 30% of subscribers will begin to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Connectivity in the country will be upgraded through the <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/355686-WACS-%28West-Africa-Cable-System%29\" target=\"_blank\">West African Cable System <\/a>(WACS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cable will allow more Ivorians to enjoy fast access to the internet,&#8221; said Vanhelleputte.<\/p>\n<p>In Benin, MTN was granted a universal license, which will allow the operator to provide telecoms services using any technology within the agreed frequency range.<\/p>\n<p>This includes 3G, 4G, LTE, Wimax, Wi-Fi outdoor as well as VoiP services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMTN is the first and only operator in Benin with a license which allows the use of new generation technologies, such as 3G, 4G, LTE and Wimax,&#8221; said Eric Tronel, CEO for MTN Benin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This presents a great opportunity to improve business communication solutions and other services to our customers, both in the consumer and corporate sectors,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group (MTN) has been awarded a universal licence to operate in Benin, and has launched 3G services in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; further expanding the company&#8217;s operations in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,28,2102,2101,713,2103],"class_list":["post-8373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-benin","tag-mtn-cote-divoire","tag-wacs","tag-wim-vanhelleputte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373","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=8373"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8376,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions\/8376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}