{"id":49957,"date":"2012-05-14T08:29:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49957"},"modified":"2012-05-14T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T08:40:29","slug":"apple-changes-ipad-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49957-apple-changes-ipad-name.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple changes iPad name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has changed the name of the iPad 3 &#8220;<a title=\"Wi-Fi\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289151-Wi-Fi\">Wi-Fi<\/a> + 4G&#8221; model to \u201cWi-Fi + Cellular\u201d, according to the <a title=\"Apple iPad information page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/specs\/\" target=\"_blank\">company\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The name-change may have been spurred-on by ongoing legal pressure from the Australian government, which argues that the iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G model does not support 4G down under.<\/p>\n<p>Australian carriers use the 1,800MHz spectrum for 4G connectivity rather than the 700MHz or 2,100MHz bands that the iPad is capable of using.<\/p>\n<p>The name-change has been spotted on Apple&#8217;s websites in a few countries.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, network operators are trialling <a title=\"LTE - Long Term Evolution\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367212-Long-term-Evolution-(LTE)\">LTE<\/a> in the 1,800MHz frequency band, but they are waiting for spectrum in the 800MHz and 2,600MHz bands to be assigned before they can roll out LTE.<\/p>\n<p>These bands are incompatible with the iPad 3\u2019s hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not publicly commented on the name change.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17852_3-57433333-71\/apple-forced-to-change-name-of-ipad-wi-fi-4g\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International pressure has forced Apple to change the name of its current-generation iPad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,2632,2490,749],"class_list":["post-49957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-ipad","tag-lte","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49959,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions\/49959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}