{"id":4624,"date":"2008-07-27T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-27T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T10:43:00","slug":"mtn-to-lay-new-cable-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/4624-mtn-to-lay-new-cable-network.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN to lay new cable network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN planned to spend R1.4-billion to build a 5000km fibre-optic network in South Africa, Tim Lowry, MTN&rsquo;s managing director for South Africa, said on Friday. &ldquo;We will be doing that in partnership with other operators and (the figure) might increase slightly.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The group hoped to roll out the national fixed-line network by 2010 and save about R6.3-billion in transmission costs over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>MTN may roll out its national fibre-optic cable in partnership with Neotel, the country&rsquo;s second fixed-line operator, which is also laying out its own national fixed- line network. Lowry said MTN SA would spend R250-million to build a new fibre-optic network around stadiums and hotels for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>MTN was also spending R130- million on the deployment of a fibre metropolitan network in high traffic zones in Johannesburg. The group said that after trials, it would go live in the third quarter of next year.<\/p>\n<p>The group hopes to save about R2.8-billion in operational expenditure over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN planned to spend R1.4-billion to build a 5000km fibre-optic network in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624"}],"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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}