{"id":546553,"date":"2005-07-12T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T13:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546553-broadband-can-cut-bank-bills.html"},"modified":"2005-07-12T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T13:40:23","slug":"broadband-can-cut-bank-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546553-broadband-can-cut-bank-bills.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband \u2018can cut bank bills&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cBecause of the environment that the banks are involved in, they require serious redundancies,\u201d he told ITWeb after speaking at the BMI-TechKnowledge African Banking Forum in Midrand last week.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/><font size=\"2\">\u201cSo they require many, many leased lines and many, many telephone lines,\u201d he says. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/><font size=\"2\">\u201cAnd over and above that, they also require remote access for some of their staff.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/><font size=\"2\">Mtshali says mobile broadband comes at lower prices than cellular, since there is a difference in the capital infrastructure involved. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/><font size=\"2\">He adds that insurer Llloyd&#8217;s of London uses mobile broadband at accident sites. Damage is evaluated, quotations are given, and even payments are made \u2013 all on site. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThat&#8217;s customer satisfaction,\u201d he comments.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile broadband wireless has the potential to slash the banking industry&#8217;s expenditure on telecommunications, which is one of its biggest costs, says Wireless Business Solutions chief operations officer Thami Mtshali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-546553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546553"}],"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=546553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}