{"id":167675,"date":"2016-06-07T13:53:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=167675"},"modified":"2016-06-07T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:55:06","slug":"telkom-networks-joins-openserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/167675-telkom-networks-joins-openserve.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom Networks joins Openserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom&#8217;s Networks division joined Openserve on 7 June 2016, with more than 8,600 Telkom network employees moving to the wholesale provider.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/telkom\/142410-meet-openserve-telkoms-redesigned-wholesale-division.html\"><strong>Openserve was launched in October 2015<\/strong><\/a> as the redesigned wholesale division of the Telkom group \u2013 a step towards separating Telkom\u2019s wholesale and retail businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Alphonzo Samuels, CEO of Openserve, said their vision is to be an open connectivity provider people can count on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are addressing a national imperative \u2013 to address the digital divide and to democratise broadband access,\u201d said Samuels.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/143845-new-telkom-openserve-fibre-to-the-home-areas-announced.html\"><strong>New Telkom Openserve fibre-to-the-home areas announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/163894-telkom-openserve-peering-at-napafrica.html\"><strong>Telkom Openserve peering at NAPAfrica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 8,600 employees from Telkom\u2019s network division have joined Openserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":142064,"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":[36,12033,33386,109],"class_list":["post-167675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-active","tag-alphonzo-samuels","tag-openserve","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167675"}],"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=167675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167681,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167675\/revisions\/167681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}