{"id":265403,"date":"2018-06-21T12:58:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=265403"},"modified":"2018-06-21T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:59:15","slug":"mtn-boosts-lte-coverage-and-download-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/265403-mtn-boosts-lte-coverage-and-download-speeds.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN boosts LTE coverage and download speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN increased its coverage and improved the customer experience on its network between January and May 2018, according to chief technology and information officer Giovanni Chiarelli.<\/p>\n

Speaking during an event at the Gerotek test track in Pretoria, Chiarelli said that MTN is effectively bringing nine new LTE sites online every day.<\/p>\n

In addition to building out the network, MTN has also disclosed statistics on dropped calls, data speeds, and data volumes compared to the year before.<\/p>\n

Chiarelli said that dropped calls on MTN\u2019s 2G network decreased 23% compared to last year, and 3G dropped calls have seen a 40% decrease.<\/p>\n

They have also maintained consistent performance in data throughput, with 3G speeds improving by 17%, while LTE speeds increased by 2% over the past year.<\/p>\n

Data volumes have seen a significant increase in the last twelve months, Chiarelli said. MTN\u2019s 3G data volumes increased by 14%, while 4G data volumes went up by 79%.<\/p>\n

The new figures from Chiarelli come after MTN\u2019s quarterly update<\/strong><\/a> at the beginning of May, for the period ended 31 March.<\/p>\n

It showed that MTN saw a 14% increase in active data users, and an increase in data revenue of 12.1%.<\/p>\n

The growth was supported by data and digital revenue, which increased by 12.1% and 17.7% respectively.<\/p>\n

MTN said it invested R1.7 billion in capital expenditure in South Africa during the first quarter of 2018 to sustain the ongoing improvement of its network.<\/p>\n

Its ongoing investment resulted in improved coverage and improved performance, Chiarelli said.<\/p>\n

MTN’s rapid network expansion is illustrated in the graphs below.<\/p>\n

Network rollout<\/h3>\n

\"MTN<\/a><\/p>\n

3G and 4G population coverage<\/h3>\n

\"MTN<\/a><\/p>\n

Now read: Red tape is slowing down network growth \u2013 MTN and Vodacom<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MTN has increased its coverage and improved the customer experience on its network between January and May 2018, its chief technology and information officer, Giovanni Chiarelli, has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":231751,"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":[14],"tags":[39825,35,29690,42],"class_list":["post-265403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-giovanni-chiarelli","tag-headline","tag-lte-network","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265403"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265417,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265403\/revisions\/265417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}