{"id":50557,"date":"2012-05-21T07:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50557"},"modified":"2012-05-22T10:10:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:10:03","slug":"vodacom-boosts-broadband-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/50557-vodacom-boosts-broadband-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom boosts broadband network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> has expanded their broadband network by adding 973 <a title=\"3G\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224878-3G\">3G<\/a> base stations over the last twelve months, bringing the total 3G base stations in its network to 5,263. This is according to the company\u2019s interim results for the year ended 31 March 2012 which were released today.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom spent a large portion of its R6.976 billion capital expenditure over the last financial year on its radio access network (\u2018RAN\u2019) renewal project, transmission and new base station sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur RAN renewal project in South Africa achieved 60% completion in the year. The rest of our sites should be completed over the next 24 months,\u201d Vodacom said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 1,700 base stations were self-provided with fibre and microwave during the year, bringing the total self-provisioned sites to just over 4,300.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom said that they also continued to invest in building 2G coverage and capacity, particularly in under serviced areas, and added 519 new 2G sites during the last financial year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2012 Vodacom broadband numbers revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/50535-2012-vodacom-broadband-numbers-revealed.html\"><strong>2012 Vodacom broadband numbers revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C halves data prices\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/12394\/cell-c-cuts-data-prices-by-50\/\"><strong>Cell C halves data prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"10GB for R199 mobile data promotion extended\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/49811-10gb-for-r199-mobile-data-promotion-extended.html\"><strong>10GB for R199 mobile data promotion extended<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has grown its broadband network by around 1,000 towers over the last twelve months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27039,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,41],"class_list":["post-50557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557"}],"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=50557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50561,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557\/revisions\/50561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}