{"id":69452,"date":"2013-02-04T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69452"},"modified":"2014-03-14T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T10:29:17","slug":"free-stellenbosch-wifi-second-phase-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/69452-free-stellenbosch-wifi-second-phase-now-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Stellenbosch WiFi second phase now live"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second phase of the Free Stellenbosch WiFi project went live recently, which extends coverage to Ida’s Valley, Kayamandi, and Cloetesville.<\/p>\n

In February 2012 Stellenbosch mayor Conrad Sidego revealed that they are planning to make Stellenbosch a WiFi town. This is an initiative backed by Stellenbosch, Mxit<\/a> and the University of Stellenbosch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a slow start and a few problems, the free Stellenbosch WiFi project is gaining momentum with additional resources which allows the network to \u201cseriously extend our reach\u201d.<\/p>\n

Despite recent changes at Mxit, the mobile company is still involved as a bandwidth supplier. Some retrenched Mxit staff members are volunteering on this project.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt truly is passion-driven, and an indication of how keen we are as a community in assisting in closing the digital gap,\u201d said the project\u2019s Carinus Lemmer.<\/p>\n

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The second phase of the Free Stellenbosch WiFi project went live last week, giving free Internet to more people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":43843,"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":[13],"tags":[17976,35,2222],"class_list":["post-69452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-carinus-lemmer","tag-headline","tag-mxit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69452"}],"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=69452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69500,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69452\/revisions\/69500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}