{"id":102051,"date":"2014-05-12T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=102051"},"modified":"2014-05-12T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:20:28","slug":"vodacom-free-1gb-network-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/102051-vodacom-free-1gb-network-stats.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom free 1GB network stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 8 million people made use of <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a>\u2019s 1GB of free data on 11 May 2014, which the company gave to all its subscribers as part of its twentieth birthday celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom said that they set a new network record with throughput peaking at 29 Gigabits per second, 20% higher than anything they had seen before.<\/p>\n<p>The operator said that data traffic was as much as 150% higher than normal in high-demand areas.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday many people complained about poor speeds and connectivity issues, and Vodacom said that they learned from this experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of network capacity this highlights the need to balance price reductions with increased capacity,\u201d said Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already announced that we intend to spend around R9 billion on our network in South Africa during the current financial year, an increase of roughly 30% on last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exactly this investment that allows us to increase capacity and at the same time continue to bring data prices down,\u201d Vodacom pointed out.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #263034;\">More on Vodacom free 1GB data<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" title=\"Vodacom free 1GB complaints, compliments\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/102003-vodacom-free-1gb-complaints-compliments.html\"><strong>Vodacom free 1GB complaints, compliments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" title=\"Free 1GB data to all Vodacom subscribers\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/101969-free-1gb-data-to-all-vodacom-subscribers.html\"><strong>Free 1GB data to all Vodacom subscribers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 8 million people made use of Vodacom\u2019s 1GB free campaign on Sunday, with a record throughput on its network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":102005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[24921,35,41],"class_list":["post-102051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-free-1gb","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102053,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102051\/revisions\/102053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}