{"id":231559,"date":"2017-10-03T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=231559"},"modified":"2017-10-03T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T13:39:58","slug":"herotel-acquires-igen-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/231559-herotel-acquires-igen-wireless.html","title":{"rendered":"HeroTel acquires IGEN Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HeroTel has acquired Internet Generation (IGEN Wireless) for an undisclosed sum, expanding its footprint in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>IGEN provides wireless services to over 7,000 clients across the Eastern Cape and is one of the largest WISPs in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the addition of IGEN to the family, HeroTel has contiguous coverage from the West Coast to the Kei River,\u201d said HeroTel chairman Alan Knott-Craig Jnr.<\/p>\n<p>HeroTel said it would leave the company\u2019s management intact following the acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>IGEN general manager Wanti du Preez said the company is excited to join HeroTel and work towards building a national WISP.<\/p>\n<p>HeroTel said it would have 30,000 clients across its WISPs by the end of 2017, and plans to double its coverage by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/231051-webafrica-splitting-its-business-in-two.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Webafrica splitting its business in two<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HeroTel has acquired IGEN Wireless for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136500,"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":[41906,3],"tags":[29548,46453],"class_list":["post-231559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-telecoms","category-telecoms","tag-herotel","tag-igen-wirless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231559"}],"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=231559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231563,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231559\/revisions\/231563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}