{"id":548787,"date":"2006-05-15T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548787-vodacom-data-only-stores-open.html"},"modified":"2006-05-15T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T07:28:00","slug":"vodacom-data-only-stores-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548787-vodacom-data-only-stores-open.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom \u2018Data Only\u2019 Stores open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">These new \u2018Data Stores\u2019 focus exclusively on anything to do with Vodacom&#8217;s data services like GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA, Blackberry and data bundles.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">These stores do not belong to Vodacom and are different from the current Vodacom Walk-in centers. They do however supply support and are well equipped to deal with issues related to Vodacom\u2019s data services.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This new development from the cellular company was welcomed by MyADSL forumites. Support and expert service remains a problem in the broadband arena, and businesses focusing solely on these issues will be of great benefit to consumers.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">With the significant growth in data services in the mobile arena it is not surprising to see specialized data shops. There are already in excess of 50 000 Vodacom data cards in use today, and this figure is expected to rise sharply with the huge marketing drive behind HSDPA.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This kind of specialty store can serve to push the popularity of broadband forward. With a broadband penetration rate of only 0.5% there is a massive untapped market waiting in South Africa. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=43515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting development a few Vodacom stores focusing solely on Vodacom&#8217;s Data services have opened.<\/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-548787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548787"}],"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=548787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}