{"id":168027,"date":"2016-06-10T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T06:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=168027"},"modified":"2016-06-10T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T06:56:15","slug":"google-planning-to-replace-fibre-with-1gbps-wireless-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/168027-google-planning-to-replace-fibre-with-1gbps-wireless-tech.html","title":{"rendered":"Google planning to replace fibre with 1Gbps wireless tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is planning to use wireless technology to replace last-mile fibre to make it cheaper to offer high-speed broadband in residential areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/06\/08\/google-gets-serious-beaming-wireless-broadband-into-homes\/85627086\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google chairman Eric Schmidt<\/strong><\/a> said the point-to-point wireless technology has become cheaper because of semiconductor improvements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These point-to-point solutions are now cheaper than digging up your garden and so forth,\u201d said Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-google-wireless-idUSKCN0I42TN20141015\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google started to test<\/strong><\/a> the wireless replacement\u00a0in 2014, which involved different frequencies &#8211; including millimetre-wave frequencies capable of transmitting data at high speeds.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/167877-google-testing-new-design-for-its-search-engine.html\"><strong>Google testing new design for its search engine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/167859-google-offering-developers-more-money.html\">Google offering developers more money<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/167799-google-play-music-concierge-launched-in-south-africa.html\">Google Play Music Concierge launched in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is planning to use wireless technology to replace last-mile fibre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,887,891,167,59],"class_list":["post-168027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-fibre-1","tag-ftth","tag-google","tag-wireless-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168027"}],"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=168027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168035,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168027\/revisions\/168035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}