{"id":550570,"date":"2006-10-19T11:57:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T11:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550570-iburst-reaches-coverage-milestone.html"},"modified":"2006-10-19T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T11:57:16","slug":"iburst-reaches-coverage-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550570-iburst-reaches-coverage-milestone.html","title":{"rendered":"IBURST REACHES COVERAGE MILESTONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">\u201ciBurst has already spent over R200 million boosting coverage for the benefit of our 25 000 subscribers who are appreciating the increasing mobility of their wireless broadband solution,\u201d said Thami Mtshali, CEO of iBurst. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">iBurst plans to roll-out base stations at an average rate of two per week until it has covered 80% of the South African population by November 2007. This original launch target compares favourably with that of iBurst\u2019s Australian counterpart which aims to eventually cover 75% of the Australian population.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe benefits of our massive investment in infrastructure will be especially evident come 2010. Overseas visitors will expect easy access to pervasive wireless broadband and South Africa\u2019s reputation depends on not disappointing them,\u201d said Mr Mtshali.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">iBurst is committed to underserviced areas and covers high-density disadvantaged areas across many provinces such as Soweto, Alexandria, Sebokeng, Parts of Mamelodi, Diepsloot, Eersterust, Gugulethu, Idasvallei, Kyamandi, Langa, Cloetesville and Mangaung.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=56270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wireless broadband provider iBurst this week commissioned its 100th base station, in Boksburg, after its nationwide roll-out plan began in November 2004 with the commissioning of a base station in Sandton.<\/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-550570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550570"}],"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=550570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}