{"id":548559,"date":"2006-04-19T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T11:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548559-sno-s-adsl-may-be-here-sooner-than-expected.html"},"modified":"2006-04-19T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T11:03:56","slug":"sno-s-adsl-may-be-here-sooner-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548559-sno-s-adsl-may-be-here-sooner-than-expected.html","title":{"rendered":"SNO\u2019s ADSL may be here sooner than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The SNO said that they are looking at launching their first wholesale products towards the middle of this year, with business and residential offerings following in the next two quarters.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cAs the SNO expands its foot-print across the country in 2006-07, we plan to introduce a variety of retail services for the benefit of individual consumers. However, in order to ensure that the SNO customers experience nothing but the very best, we intend to roll-out our consumer services in stages, starting with basic voice telephony and Internet access in the major cities of South Africa,\u201d the SNO website states.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The launch date for the Internet access services is given as the 4th Quarter of 2006, which gives a further indication that Telkom may face competition in the ADSL before the end of the year.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The SNO is making its broadband intentions clear with the statement \u201cIn due course, the SNO will also provide true broadband Internet access services with voice capabilities.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">These &#8216;value-added voice services&#8217; will most likely be available in 2007.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=41763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a reliable source the Second National Operator (SNO) may have its own ADSL offering ready before the end of 2006. In an email from an SNO employee it says that \u201cOur [SNO] ADSL services are currently planned to be launched towards the end of 2006.\u201d<\/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-548559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548559"}],"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=548559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}