{"id":549700,"date":"2006-07-31T08:16:39","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T08:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549700-springbok-now-covered-by-vodacom.html"},"modified":"2006-07-31T08:16:39","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T08:16:39","slug":"springbok-now-covered-by-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549700-springbok-now-covered-by-vodacom.html","title":{"rendered":"Springbok now covered by Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This opening marks the second of Vodacom\u2019s three-phased base station roll out project in the Cape, following the launch of a base station in Middlepos last Saturday, 22 July.<br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Vodacom\u2019s Managing Executive Western Region, Alvin Scott, explains Vodacom\u2019s motivation in connecting this community: \u201cSpringbok\u2019s main income is generated from tourism, mining activities, historical sites, museums and restaurants. Having cellphone connection can play a significant part in promoting bottom-up socio-economic development, while simultaneously stimulating small businesses and entrepreneurship.\u00a0 This route also gives access to tourists for the annual Spring display of flowers in Namaqualand.\u201d <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Vodacom is the first cellular operator to launch base stations in Kheis, Kharkams, Wolfkop, Arkoep, and the Namaqua Game Lodge.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Altogether this provides coverage for the local communities around the base stations and an additional 90 kilometres of coverage on the N7 route to Namibia. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom launched five new base stations on the N7 route in the Springbok area, the administrative capital of Namaqualand, bringing mobile communication to 15 000 community members, covering 90 kilometres of road. <\/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-549700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549700"}],"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=549700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}