{"id":546689,"date":"2005-08-24T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546689-wbs-to-extend-their-iburst-broadband-coverage.html"},"modified":"2005-08-24T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:17:57","slug":"wbs-to-extend-their-iburst-broadband-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546689-wbs-to-extend-their-iburst-broadband-coverage.html","title":{"rendered":"WBS to extend their iBurst broadband coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The new base stations are in Roodekrans (West Rand), Strand (Cape Town), Menlo\/CSIR (Pretoria), Benoni (East Rand), Eden Mall (East Rand), Illovo\/Hyde Park (Sandton), Morningside (Sandton) and Proton\/Florida (West Rand).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">These base stations will all go live within the next three weeks. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The improved coverage will allow iBurst to compete more effectively with the other wireless broadband services from Sentech, MTN and Vodacom.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to Sasan Parvin, Chief Technical Officer at WBS, this network expansion and increased coverage will bring this \u2018superior wireless broadband service\u2019 in South Africa to more consumers. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">With the recent introduction of the iBurst iGo services it means that all the current wireless broadband providers have similar \u2018small cap\u2019 offerings. Issues like coverage, mobility and Quality of Service will play a vital role in ensuring market share in this competitive Internet access arena. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">WBS seems to be well aware of these requirements, and their continual expansion will be coupled with a more customer centric approach, according to WBS\u2019s operations manager, Musa Mlangeni.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBS has installed eight new base stations in a continuous expansion of their network to improve coverage.<\/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-546689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546689"}],"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=546689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}