{"id":191076,"date":"2016-12-08T16:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=191076"},"modified":"2016-12-09T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T05:19:08","slug":"lte-a-coming-to-iburst-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/191076-lte-a-coming-to-iburst-customers.html","title":{"rendered":"LTE-A coming to iBurst customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iBurst has informed subscribers it is\u00a0rolling out its high-speed LTE-Advanced network to replace its wireless network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While our nationwide iBurst network has been providing South Africans with affordable bandwidth and connectivity for well over a decade, it has become increasingly outdated in terms of comparable connectivity services now available on the market,&#8221; said iBurst.<\/p>\n<p>Existing customers can\u00a0take up migration specials which will run until the end of January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0specials are\u00a0subject to coverage in your area, said iBurst.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the new LTE-A network is rolled out, your managed migration will be as disruption-free as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you do experience any disruption, please do not hesitate to contact us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>iBurst also announced that it has &#8220;Supersized&#8221; the accounts of existing clients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll see a sizeable increase in the data available to you and it won&#8217;t cost you a cent. Supersize took place on the 1st of December and will run for three months during the migration period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news follows\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/180050-new-national-lte-a-network-for-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>an announcement by WBS<\/strong><\/a> that it is rolling out a national LTE-A network in the coming years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Pricing<\/h3>\n<p>iBurst&#8217;s promotional migration deals are available on 24-month contracts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" bgcolor=\"#003366\" width=\"40%\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Package<\/span><\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" bgcolor=\"#003366\" width=\"30%\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Price<\/span><\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" bgcolor=\"#003366\" width=\"30%\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Out-of-bundle rate<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>20GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R199<\/td>\n<td>R10\/GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>50GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R399<\/td>\n<td>R8\/GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>100GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R599<\/td>\n<td>R6\/GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/158935-fnb-and-iburst-extend-free-uncapped-lte-trial.html\">FNB and iBurst extend free uncapped LTE trial<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iBurst has announced the beginning of its migration from its existing wireless technology to LTE-Advanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":180070,"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":[13],"tags":[36,27663],"class_list":["post-191076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-lte-advanced-lte-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191076"}],"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=191076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191078,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191076\/revisions\/191078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}