{"id":11340,"date":"2010-02-02T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T07:07:00","slug":"vodacom-21-mbps-hspa-network-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/11340-vodacom-21-mbps-hspa-network-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom 21 Mbps HSPA+ network live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys today announced that Vodacom has made significant progress in the upgrade of its mobile data network, and is set to bump up all their subscribers to 7.2 Mbps at the end of March. To date &lsquo;Vodacom Advanced&rsquo; customers had access to speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps, with the rest of the customer base seeing downlink speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Uys further announced that Vodacom has switched on its HSPA+ network in Midrand, offering speeds of up to 21 Mbps &ndash; the first live HSPA+ network in Africa.&nbsp; This service will however not be available immediately, but Uys said that 21 Mbps HSPA+ will be available in areas like the World Cup stadiums and airports &ldquo;where it makes sense&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Uys added that the full Vodacom network will be 14.4 Mbps capable by the time the 2010 World Cup kicks off.&nbsp; Good news for Vodacom subscribers is that they will get access to 14.4 Mbps HSPA from the end of March, but Uys highlighted that only around 100 sites will be 14.4 Mbps enabled at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Cellular\/11280.html\">Cell C announced in January<\/a> that it is planning to roll out its 4G network this year, and launch 21 Mbps HSPA+ services in 2010.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?214720-Vodacom-21-Mbps-HSPA-network-goes-live-in-Midrand\"><strong>Vodacom HSPA+ network<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom will upgrade all their customers to 7.2 Mbps at the end of March; 21 Mbps HSPA+ network already live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}