{"id":14336,"date":"2010-08-10T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-10T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:59:00","slug":"arc-telecoms-close-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/14336-arc-telecoms-close-to-launch.html","title":{"rendered":"Arc Telecoms close to launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arc Telecoms, a new telecoms company headed up by former iBurst Business CEO Steve Briggs, is gearing up for an official launch next month.&nbsp; The company is planning to shake up the SME market with a range of telecoms solutions suited to their needs.<\/p>\n<p>Arc Telecoms recently received a welcome cash injection from former iBurst Managing Director Alan Knott-Craig Junior who acquired 50% of the company which was founded by Briggs, former Bizcall MD Paven Chetty and iBurst Business manager Michelle McCann.<\/p>\n<p>The company is however not sitting back and waiting for its launch.&nbsp; Despite the fact that Arc Telecoms will only officially be launched on 30 September, the company is already operational and is currently selling voice and data services &ndash; mainly built on solutions which it receives from Vodacom Business and iBurst Business.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs however sent a message to the market that they should wait for the end of September to see the whole picture.&nbsp; &ldquo;While we already have a few voice and data services in the market, one piece of the puzzle is still missing.&nbsp; This great value proposition will be unveiled on 30 September,&rdquo; said Briggs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/257342-Arc-Telecoms-nearing-launch\">Arc Telecoms discussion<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New telecoms player already doing business under the radar, with an official launch planned next month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336"}],"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=14336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}