{"id":177607,"date":"2016-09-02T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=177607"},"modified":"2016-09-02T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:02:41","slug":"mtns-impressive-coverage-between-ogies-and-richards-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/177607-mtns-impressive-coverage-between-ogies-and-richards-bay.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN’s impressive coverage between Ogies and Richards Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN has 100% population coverage in South Africa, which means there are very few places where you will be left without an MTN signal.<\/p>\n

The mobile operator has also achieved 93% 3G coverage and 43% LTE coverage, despite having to re-farm spectrum for its LTE network.<\/p>\n

To ensure it improves its network further, MTN will invest R12 billion this year to upgrade coverage and performance.<\/p>\n

One example of its growing coverage is inside the railway tunnels servicing the coal link between Ogies and Richards Bay.<\/p>\n

The 580km line, which stretches from Ermelo to Richards Bay, is a channel\u00a0for\u00a0export coal from 44\u00a0coal mines in Mpumalanga to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal.<\/p>\n

The line passes through numerous tunnels, where there was previously no cellular reception.<\/p>\n

MTN solved the problem by installing cellular sites inside these\u00a0railway tunnels.<\/p>\n

The images below show the coal\u00a0route and several\u00a0of the areas where MTN provides coverage.<\/p>\n

\"Coalink\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tunnel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tunnel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/a><\/p>\n

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MTN provides coverage throughout most of South Africa, which includes inside the railway tunnels servicing the coal link between Ogies and Richards Bay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":141928,"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":[38725,35,42],"class_list":["post-177607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-coalink","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177607"}],"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=177607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177641,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177607\/revisions\/177641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}