{"id":165676,"date":"2016-05-19T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=165676"},"modified":"2016-05-19T12:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:25:44","slug":"mtn-in-talks-to-launch-virtual-network-operator-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/165676-mtn-in-talks-to-launch-virtual-network-operator-services.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN in talks to launch virtual network operator services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN is in talks with companies to launch mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services in South Africa, said MTN\u2019s chief enterprise officer Alpheus Mangale.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the majority of South Africa\u2019s MVNOs run on Cell C\u2019s network, with the exception of Afrihost and its subsidiary Axxess&#8217;s mobile services &#8211; which use MTN.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that MTN bought a controlling stake in Afrihost on 2 June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Mangale said MTN plans to expand its MVNO offering in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>MTN is in discussions with partners in the financial space and other sectors, said Mangale.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/165670-how-mtn-is-going-to-double-lte-speeds-on-its-network.html\"><strong>How MTN is going to double LTE speeds on its network<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/165660-mtn-promises-massive-network-investment-in-2016.html\"><strong>MTN promises massive network investment in 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/165590-mtn-slashes-data-prices.html\"><strong>MTN slashes data prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/165482-mtn-and-huawei-launch-1gbps-lte-u-service.html\"><strong>MTN and Huawei test 1Gbps LTE-U service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/103447-mtn-buys-stake-in-afrihost.html\"><strong>MTN buys stake in Afrihost<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN plans to launch mobile virtual network operator services soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":152615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,1669,1765,20557,42],"class_list":["post-165676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-afrihost","tag-axxess","tag-mobile-virtual-network-operator-mvno","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165676"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165678,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165676\/revisions\/165678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}