{"id":37977,"date":"2011-11-10T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=37977"},"modified":"2011-11-11T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T07:47:51","slug":"africacom-awards-2011-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/37977-africacom-awards-2011-winners.html","title":{"rendered":"AfricaCom Awards 2011 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AfricaCom Awards winners were announced this week (9 November), with MTN, <a title=\"SEACOM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227005-SEACOM\">SEACOM<\/a>, <a title=\"Main One\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/331276-Main-One\">Main One<\/a>, <a title=\"Orange Business Services\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360022-Orange-Business-Services\">Orange<\/a>, <a title=\"Helios Towers\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/380927-Helios-Towers\">Helios Towers<\/a>, <a title=\"Ericsson\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359638-Sony-Ericsson\">Ericsson<\/a>, <a title=\"Huawei\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/347796-Huawei\">Huawei<\/a>, <a title=\"Gateway Communications\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211665-Gateway-Communications\">Gateway Communications<\/a>, <a title=\"SkyVision\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/380933-SkyVision\">SkyVision<\/a> and <a title=\"Safaricom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313867-Safaricom\">SafariCom<\/a> winning awards.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a> South Africa scooped two awards &#8211; best network improvement for their LTE trial network and the best marketing campaign for its MTN Zone re-launch.<\/p>\n<p>SEACOM and Main One were awarded &#8220;Best Pan African Initiative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Main One and SEACOM announced in May 2011 that they had interconnected their west and east African cable systems to launch capacity services from PoP to PoP, from a STM-1 level and above.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership extends the Main One and SEACOM networks to create a system that offers connection between any SEACOM and Main One PoPs all around Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 AfricaCom Awards winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MTN South Afric<\/strong>a &#8211; Best Network Improvement (for their <a title=\"Long term Evolution (LTE)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367212-Long-term-Evolution-(LTE)\">LTE<\/a> pilot test) and Best Marketing Campaign (MTN Zone)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Orange<\/strong> &#8211; Best New Service<\/li>\n<li><strong>Helios Towers Africa &#8211; <\/strong>Best Cost Efficiency Initiative<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ericsson<\/strong> &#8211; Rural Telecoms Award<\/li>\n<li><strong>Huawei Technologies<\/strong> &#8211; Best Backhaul Solution<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gateway Communications<\/strong> &#8211; Customer Service Excellence<\/li>\n<li><strong>SkyVision<\/strong> &#8211; Satellite Service Provider of the Year<\/li>\n<li><strong>SafariCom<\/strong> &#8211; Best ICT Solution Provider for Enterprise Markets, Changing Lives Award<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seacom\/Main One<\/strong> &#8211; Best Pan-African Initiative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa and SEACOM scoop 2011 AfricaCom Awards <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":37985,"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":[17],"tags":[36,2534,2238,1982,6615,42,1249,6617,317,6619],"class_list":["post-37977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-ericsson","tag-gateway-communications","tag-huawei","tag-main-one","tag-mtn","tag-orange","tag-safaricom","tag-seacom","tag-skyvision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37977"}],"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=37977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37981,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37977\/revisions\/37981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}