{"id":101836,"date":"2016-08-23T09:19:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T07:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101836"},"modified":"2016-08-23T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T09:47:32","slug":"every-person-in-johannesburg-will-have-free-wi-fi-in-next-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/101836-every-person-in-johannesburg-will-have-free-wi-fi-in-next-four-years","title":{"rendered":"Every person in Johannesburg will have free Wi-Fi in next four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All 4 million Johannesburg residents are set to receive free Wi-Fi within the next four years, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Tech\/News\/joburg-promises-free-wi-fi-for-all-residents-20160822\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Zolani Matabese, Head of Broadband for the City of Johannesburg, who told Fin24 that<strong> 1,000 hot-spots<\/strong> for access to the internet would be installed around the municipality by year-end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is to offer free Wi-Fi to each and every person in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now a human right to have access to the internet so we\u2019ve rolled out free Wi-Fi at BRT [Bus Rapid Transport] stations, at some of our rates offices and at theatres, which allow people access to 300MB per day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This means that Johannesburg\u00a0should\u00a0become a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smart_city\" target=\"_blank\">Smart city<\/a><\/strong> by 2020.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 6 things we do in video games but will never admit\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101774-6-things-we-do-in-video-games-but-will-never-admit.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">6 things we do in video games but will never admit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The South African gaming market is headed for massive trouble\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101308-the-south-african-gaming-market-is-headed-for-massive-trouble.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The South African gaming market is headed for massive trouble<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man\u2019s Sky\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101640-5-space-exploration-games-to-play-instead-of-no-mans-sky.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man\u2019s Sky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg is set to become the Wi-Fi capital of South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":92557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[31,4197,2378,7048,15699],"class_list":["post-101836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-free","tag-internet","tag-johannesburg","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101848,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101836\/revisions\/101848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}