{"id":162820,"date":"2016-04-22T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=162820"},"modified":"2016-04-22T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:01:44","slug":"cell-c-launching-lte-advanced-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/162820-cell-c-launching-lte-advanced-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C launching LTE-Advanced soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos has said the mobile operator\u00a0will launch LTE-Advanced on its network in the next &#8220;2 to 3 weeks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dos Santos made the statement during\u00a0an interview on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cliffcentral.com\/the-leadership-platform\/leader-interview-sponsored-sibanye-gold-18\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CliffCentral\u2019s Leadership Platform<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Cell C said it did not have a firm launch date for LTE-Advanced &#8211; following an\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/146729-cell-cs-lte-advanced-hits-138mbps.html\">LTE-Advanced demonstration at AfricaCom<\/a><\/strong> in November 2015, which saw 138Mbps download speeds reached.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C focussed on the roll-out of around\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/139632-cell-c-lte-network-live-for-more-users.html\">1,000 LTE sites<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>during 2015, said the company, while running LTE-A tests in Gauteng and the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C said it was unable to comment further on its current LTE-A roll-out plans.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Cell C<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/160880-how-cell-c-showed-a-massive-network-improvement.html\">How Cell C showed a massive network improvement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/162502-we-fully-support-our-ceo-cell-cs-top-female-management.html\">We fully support our CEO: Cell C\u2019s top female management<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos has stated when the network will launch LTE-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148435,"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":[355,35,27663],"class_list":["post-162820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-lte-advanced-lte-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162820"}],"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=162820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162858,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162820\/revisions\/162858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}