{"id":209392,"date":"2017-05-05T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T06:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=209392"},"modified":"2017-05-05T08:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T06:07:48","slug":"express-wi-fi-by-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/209392-express-wi-fi-by-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Express Wi-Fi by Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, through its Internet.org initiative,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/info.internet.org\/en\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/express-wi-fi-by-facebook-launches-commercially-in-india-announces-partnership-with-airtel-to-launch-20000-new-hotspots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>has launched<\/strong><\/a> its low-cost Express Wi-Fi service in India.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced a partnership with Airtel to launch 20,000 hotspots in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Express Wi-Fi is part of Facebook\u2019s global initiative to spread Internet connectivity, which offers affordable Wi-Fi bundles to subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to complement mobile data offerings by providing a low-cost, high-bandwidth alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can access the Express Wi-Fi network by signing up with an Express Wi-Fi retailer and purchasing a daily, weekly, or monthly data bundle at a rate set by Facebook\u2019s partners.<\/p>\n<p>The Express Wi-Fi price plans will cost Rs10 (R2.13) for 100MB of data per day, and go up to Rs300 (R63.81) for 20GB per day.<\/p>\n<p>Express Wi-Fi is currently live in five countries: India, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t wait to work with our partners to continue expanding Express Wi-Fi across the world,\u201d said Facebook.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/209196-facebooks-impressive-numbers.html\">Facebook\u2019s impressive numbers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has launched Express Wi-Fi services in five countries, with plans to expand the service across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140768,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[42974,161,31240],"class_list":["post-209392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-express-wi-fi","tag-facebook","tag-internet-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209392"}],"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=209392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209436,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209392\/revisions\/209436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}