{"id":190370,"date":"2016-12-27T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190370"},"modified":"2016-12-27T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T11:14:30","slug":"mtn-simplifying-its-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/190370-mtn-simplifying-its-products.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN simplifying its products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has committed to simplifying its products and customers can expect a competitive customer-centric company in 2017. This is according to MTN SA CEO Mteto Nyati.<\/p>\n<p>Nyati told MyBroadband that their interaction with customers will be underpinned by simplified customer propositions, tailor-made for customers.<\/p>\n<p>He said MTN subscribers can also expect a much-improved network from the company.<\/p>\n<p>MTN South Africa invested R12 billion to increase capacity and modernise its network, which is starting to pay off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2016, we managed to improve our throughput speeds and quadrupled the number of our LTE sites,\u201d said Nyati.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Spectrum needed urgently<\/h3>\n<p>Nyati said delays in the allocation of spectrum remain the biggest challenge facing the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposals contained in the ICT White Paper are a cause for concern and we are making our submissions and hope that the government will reconsider some of these proposals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government to speed up the allocation of high-frequency spectrum \u201cto enable us to speed up the roll-out of new-generation networks\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/189902-mtn-smart-village-deal-finalised.html\">MTN-Smart Village deal finalised<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has committed to simplifying its products and the company said its customers can expect a competitive customer-centric company in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":146213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,3192,42,19673],"class_list":["post-190370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-mteto-nyati","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190370"}],"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=190370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190462,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190370\/revisions\/190462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}