{"id":393765,"date":"2021-04-20T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=393765"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:08:27","slug":"in-conversation-with-phathizwe-malinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/393765-in-conversation-with-phathizwe-malinga.html","title":{"rendered":"In conversation with Phathizwe Malinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phathizwe Malinga is the managing director at SqwidNet, a network provider that offers low-cost access to innovative IoT (Internet of Things) solutions and operators in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>As managing director, he is responsible for driving innovation by working closely with SqwidNet\u2019s ecosystem of partners.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two decades he has worked in the information technology and telecommunications sectors, holding many senior management roles.<\/p>\n<p>Malinga began his career as a Telkom programmer before working as a project manager for Cohesion Project Management Solutions and later Dariel Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining SqwidNet, Malinga was the head of software development and IT applications strategy at Life Healthcare Group.<\/p>\n<p>In this discussion, Malinga summarizes how SqwidNet is doing after lockdown and outlines the target markets for IoTs.<\/p>\n<p>He also clarifies whether IoTs are for companies, how they help customers, and where they can implement these solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Phathizwe Malinga is embedded below<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GX7VHdGnwrk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phathizwe Malinga discusses SqwidNet post-lockdown, as well as the target market of IoT, and what it means for businesses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341058,"featured_media":393417,"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":[18],"tags":[68518,26588,53247,42910],"class_list":["post-393765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-2021-mybroadband-conference","tag-iot","tag-phathizwe-malinga","tag-sqwidnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393765"}],"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\/341058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393833,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393765\/revisions\/393833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}