{"id":547854,"date":"2006-01-27T07:56:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T07:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547854-tata-exec-to-lead-sno.html"},"modified":"2006-01-27T07:56:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T07:56:46","slug":"tata-exec-to-lead-sno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547854-tata-exec-to-lead-sno.html","title":{"rendered":"TATA EXEC TO LEAD SNO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The appointment is an important step as the company gears up to begin offering services in competition with incumbent Telkom SNO Telecommunications hopes to begin providing services to customers in the second half of the year, more than four years after Telkom\u2019s statutory monopoly ended. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Tata, through its Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) subsidiary, holds a controlling 26% stake in SNO Telecommunications. Other shareholders include Transtel, Eskom and empowerment company Nexus <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Pandey has more than 20 years\u2019 experience in the telecom industry, which could prove invaluable for the second operator. In November 2003 he was appointed president of India\u2019s Tata Teleservices, tasked with expanding the company\u2019s geographic presence in that country. Pandey was also previously CEO of Tata Internet Services <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Tata Teleservices provides telephony and Internet access to Indian consumers through the Tata Indicom brand. It operates cellular, fixed-line and fixed-wireless networks and boasts 4,6m customers in 1400 towns in India. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The company claims to be the market leader in fixed wireless telephony, with 2,7m such customers. Because of the enormous cost involved in building a fixed-line network, it\u2019s likely SNO Telecommunications will rely heavily on fixed-wireless technologies. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=36400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Tata Group executive Ajay Pandey has been appointed MD of SA\u2019s second fixed-line network operator, which is trading as SNO Telecommunications.<\/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-547854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547854"}],"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=547854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}