{"id":11827,"date":"2010-03-18T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-18T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:09:00","slug":"telkom-may-sign-roaming-agreement-with-mtn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/11827-telkom-may-sign-roaming-agreement-with-mtn.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom may sign roaming agreement with MTN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While roaming negotiations and site sharing arrangements are at an advanced stage with the mobile cellular operators, Telkom has not finalised any agreement with any of the parties as yet,&#8221; Nombulelo Moholi, MD of Telkom South Africa said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The speculation arose as a result of Telkom&#8217;s intention to become SA&#8217;s fourth mobile network operator later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Should Telkom sign a roaming agreement with MTN, this would mean that Telkom mobile customers would roam on MTN&#8217;s network outside the large urban centres where Telkom has no infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?221843-Telkom-commits-to-signing-roaming-agreement-with-MTN&amp;p=3712810#post3712810\">Telkom to sign roaming agreement with MTN<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Discussion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Telecoms\/11632.html\"><strong>Telkom labour woes may affect world cup<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/11659.html\">Telkom ADSL 4 Mbps: Do you get full speed?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommunications group Telkom has clarified media reports that it will sign a roaming agreement with cell phone operator MTN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}