{"id":211892,"date":"2017-05-31T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=211892"},"modified":"2017-05-31T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:08:55","slug":"neotels-plans-for-its-wireless-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/211892-neotels-plans-for-its-wireless-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Neotel\u2019s plans for its wireless network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neotel is exploring different options for the prime radio frequency spectrum it has, while upgrading its CDMA and WiMAX networks to Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Michael Allschwang, the sales and marketing officer at Neotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of opportunity there, but we have to tread carefully. Everything you do with spectrum needs regulator approval,&#8221;\u00a0said Allschwang.<\/p>\n<p>Neotel has highly-sought-after spectrum in the 1,800MHz band, in the lower-frequency 850MHz band, and the 3,500MHz band which was used for WiMAX.<\/p>\n<p>Allschwang said they are finalising discussions with parties which\u00a0have indicated interest in partnering with Neotel.<\/p>\n<p>However, he could not reveal who Neotel has been in discussions with, as shareholder approval on both sides is still needed for any deal to go through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can say is that we have received great responses from small and large players, including second-tier ISPs that need to use spectrum to roll out their services.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/198194-here-is-the-new-neotel.html\">Here is the new Neotel<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neotel is exploring different options for the prime radio frequency spectrum it has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":211896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[35,42650,107],"class_list":["post-211892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-headline","tag-michael-allschwang","tag-neotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211892"}],"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=211892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213378,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211892\/revisions\/213378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}