{"id":62520,"date":"2012-10-19T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=62520"},"modified":"2012-10-19T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:04:35","slug":"vodacom-lte-speed-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/62520-vodacom-lte-speed-boost.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom LTE speed boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom<\/a> has started to upgrade its LTE<\/a> network to support MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output<\/a>) instead of the initial SISO (single-input and single-output<\/a>) setup.<\/p>\n

MIMO refers to the use of multiple antennas for the transmitter and the receiver, which significantly boosts the end-user performance on mobile networks.<\/p>\n

Vodacom launched their commercial LTE service at the 2012 MyBroadband Conference on 10 October, and at the time the company had 70 live LTE sites. A week later and this number has now grown to over 100 sites.<\/p>\n

Vodacom said that they are currently planning to upgrade around 70% of their LTE network to support MIMO. The upgrade, Vodacom explained, requires a hardware swap at each LTE enabled base station.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe LTE rollout will continue into next year. We should be caught up on the MIMO rollout on the live LTE sites by the end of this year,\u201d Vodacom said.<\/p>\n

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Vodacom is upgrading its LTE network to boost the peak speeds to consumers with MIMO technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,2490,41,16256],"class_list":["post-62520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-lte","tag-vodacom","tag-vodacom-lte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62520"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62630,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62520\/revisions\/62630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}