{"id":551721,"date":"2007-03-08T06:28:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T06:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551721-disadvantaged-in-the-neotel-loop.html"},"modified":"2007-03-08T06:28:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T06:28:24","slug":"disadvantaged-in-the-neotel-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551721-disadvantaged-in-the-neotel-loop.html","title":{"rendered":"Disadvantaged in the Neotel loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">All the suppliers have agreed to involve small local businesses and empowerment groups in their operational activities and train previously disadvantaged students who are entering the hi tech sector. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">When Neotel launched last September, it said it would invest R11bn in technology infrastructure to grow its national networks. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Last week, it said it would be investing the smaller sum of R8bn to augment the network it purchased from state-run Transnet for R256m. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Neotel already has 1300km of fibre-optic cable but has no immediate plans to offer a voice or data service to consumers. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Pravir Dahiya, the executive head of Neotel Networks, said telecoms services around the world were migrating to networks built on internet protocol (IP) technology. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe are partnering with global leaders in various technology areas to ensure new generation technologies are introduced into SA,\u201d he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Siemens Telecommunications will provide the core IP network and a network management system. Equipment from Cisco will be used in metropolitan areas, with Dimension Data responsible for setting up Neotel\u2019s network in the major cities to connect subscribers to the internet. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Motorola will provide radio frequency planning for a wireless network built on two technologies, CDMA and WiMax. Huawei will also provide infrastructure and services.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=68557\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE second network operator, Neotel, has appointed a variety of technology suppliers to build its networks and has secured commitments from them to train previously disadvantaged students who are entering the hi tech sector. <\/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-551721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551721"}],"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=551721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}