{"id":549917,"date":"2006-08-22T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T07:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549917-sentech-to-offer-higher-speeds-extend-coverage.html"},"modified":"2006-08-22T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T07:54:56","slug":"sentech-to-offer-higher-speeds-extend-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549917-sentech-to-offer-higher-speeds-extend-coverage.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentech to offer higher speeds, extend coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The parastatel said it plans to reach a significant portion of the South African population. \u201cSentech\u2019s (and governments) intention is to expand its broadband wireless services to residential and business markets to serve up to 80% of the country,\u201d Sentech said.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The government owned company is currently waiting for funding to realize its plans. \u201cWe are still in negotiations with government for funding of Sentech&#8217;s further broadband network rollout. We don not have a date as yet,\u201d it said.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Sentech\u2019s MyWireless users can also look forward to faster speeds. Sentech stated that it is their intention to increase the existing maximum speeds and they intend to launch this service in the near future. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The company said that the uptake of MyWireless is currently not satisfactory, but that it is reviewing it&#8217;s existing product sets and approach to increase it&#8217;s uptake for their broadband services.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Sentech, who is currently rolling out Digital Terrestrial Television, also plans to offer voice services before the end of the year.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Sentech was the first competitor to Telkom\u2019s ADSL service when it launched its MyWireless service in 2003.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=51129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech is planning to increase the speeds of its MyWireless service as well as expand the coverage of its MyWireless and Biznet 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-549917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549917"}],"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=549917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}