{"id":114249,"date":"2014-11-14T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114249"},"modified":"2014-11-14T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:11:14","slug":"telkom-150mbps-lte-a-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/114249-telkom-150mbps-lte-a-goes-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom 150Mbps LTE-A goes live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom\u2019s new LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network went live today in Parkview and surrounding areas, delivering Internet connectivity speeds of up to 150Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Parkview has been identified as a Telkom \u201cFuturehood\u201d and is the first of over 50 suburbs set to be connected to Telkom\u2019s LTE-A network by March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelkom is on a journey to deliver super-fast broadband options on both mobile and fixed lines. We are gearing ourselves up to be as responsive as possible to what our customers want, be it VDSL, Fibre, or LTE-A,\u201d said Attila Vitai \u2013 MD of Telkom Mobile and Consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Vitai said that Telkom\u2019s LTE-A offering was comparable to speeds available over a fibre network and offered a compelling alternative to fixed line solutions for high-speed connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The promotional offer unveiled to customers in the Parkview area includes 100GB of data, with speeds of up to 150Mbps, for R1,399 per month over a 36 month contract.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114255\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LTE-A-fact-sheet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114255\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114255\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LTE-A-fact-sheet.jpg\" alt=\"Telkom LTE-A fact sheet\" width=\"600\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LTE-A-fact-sheet.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LTE-A-fact-sheet-282x400.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telkom LTE-A fact sheet<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on broadband<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"New Telkom 150Mbps LTE Advanced pricing\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/114119-new-telkom-150mbps-lte-advanced-pricing.html\"><strong>New Telkom 150Mbps LTE Advanced pricing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"100Mbps broadband prices: Telkom LTE A vs FTTH\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/114183-100mbps-broadband-prices-telkom-lte-a-vs-ftth.html\"><strong>100Mbps broadband prices: Telkom LTE A vs FTTH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Fibre-to-the-home prices in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/112104-fibre-to-the-home-prices-in-south-africa.html\">Fibre-to-the-home prices in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom\u2019s new LTE-Advanced network went live today in Parkview and surrounding areas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":108732,"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":[27661,35,9177,27659,109,689],"class_list":["post-114249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-futurehood","tag-headline","tag-lte-advanced","tag-lte-a","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114249"}],"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=114249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114253,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114249\/revisions\/114253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}