{"id":163042,"date":"2016-04-25T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163042"},"modified":"2016-04-25T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:05:18","slug":"cell-c-launches-lte-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/163042-cell-c-launches-lte-advanced.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C launches LTE-Advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has announced the commercial availability of its LTE-Advanced\u00a0network in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>The roll-out of LTE-A in KwaZulu-Natal will commence in the coming months and will be completed in the third quarter of this year, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>LTE-A is available on the following handsets, classified as Category 6 handsets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samsung Note 5 (SM\u2013920C)<\/li>\n<li>Samsung S6 Edge\u00a0(SM-G928C)<\/li>\n<li>Apple iPhone 6S<\/li>\n<li>Apple iPhone 6S Plus<\/li>\n<li>Huawei Mate 8_DS<\/li>\n<li>Samsung S7 Flat (G930F)<\/li>\n<li>Samsung S7 Edge (G935F)<\/li>\n<li>LG G5 (H850)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cell C promised that more handsets and stand-alone data devices that support its LTE-A network will become available in time.<\/p>\n<p>Users\u00a0will not see a different symbol for LTE-A on these handsets, said Cell C, with some showing \u201c4G\u201d, while others will show \u201cLTE\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, it said subscribers within an LTE-A coverage area with one of these devices can expect to experience download speeds of up to 100Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C demonstrated its LTE-A capabilities at AfricaCom last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/146729-cell-cs-lte-advanced-hits-138mbps.html\"><strong>demonstrating speeds of up to 138Mbps<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we need now is the spectrum to become available,\u201d said Cell C.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Cell C\u2019s network<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/162820-cell-c-launching-lte-advanced-soon.html\"><strong>Cell C launching LTE-Advanced soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/160880-how-cell-c-showed-a-massive-network-improvement.html\"><strong>How Cell C showed a massive network improvement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/146729-cell-cs-lte-advanced-hits-138mbps.html\"><strong>Cell C\u2019s LTE-Advanced hits 138Mbps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has announced the commercial availability of its LTE-Advanced network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148439,"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":[355,35,18116,9177],"class_list":["post-163042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-long-term-evolution-lte","tag-lte-advanced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163042"}],"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=163042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163044,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163042\/revisions\/163044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}