{"id":2553,"date":"2008-01-18T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-18T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T04:33:00","slug":"mweb-plans-wimax-trial-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/2553-mweb-plans-wimax-trial-extension.html","title":{"rendered":"MWEB plans WiMax trial extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB has been trialing its WiMax service for many months, and is planning to extend its coverage and add additional users to the network. <\/p>\n<p>MWEB currently has 830 users on the trial, and 7 active base stations.&nbsp; These WiMax base stations are situated in Cape Town Foreshore, Cape Town Plumstead, Cape Town N1 City, Boksburg, Randburg, Sandton and Soweto.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB is planning to erect an eighth base station in Cresta, but this will be dependant on a license extension from ICASA.&nbsp; The company also previously said that it plans to reach 1000 trial users on its network.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB&rsquo;s trial licence officially expires on Tuesday 22 January, and unless ICASA issues MWEB with a license extension the company will not be allowed to continue trialing the service.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that it has applied for an extension to its current trial license some time ago, but they are still waiting for a decision from ICASA. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=101545\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB is planning to add more users to their WiMax trial and will erect another base station, but are waiting for ICASA to give the go-ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}