{"id":86456,"date":"2016-02-23T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86456"},"modified":"2016-02-23T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:14:39","slug":"gauteng-to-have-100-internet-connectivity-by-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/86456-gauteng-to-have-100-internet-connectivity-by-2019","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng to have 100% internet connectivity by 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier David Makhura said in his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.za\/speeches\/premier-david-makhura-gauteng-state-prov-state-province-address-2016-22-feb-2016-0000\" target=\"_blank\">2016 State of the Province Address<\/a><\/strong> that Gauteng will reach its goal of 100% broadband connectivity by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a press statement in July 2014 by the Gauteng Economic Cluster that its\u00a0vision for a Digital City-Region is widespread broadband connectivity and 100% Wi-Fi provision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Broadband connectivity is growing faster, covering all parts of the City Region,<\/em>\u201d said Makhura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Through our partnerships with the municipalities and the private sector, we will reach our goal of 100% connectivity by 2019.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the provincial government had connected 10\u00a0core network sites and 368 local sites that are fully operational \u2013 out of a target of 400 for 2015\/16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>In addition, the City of Tshwane has connected 700 free Wi-Fi hotspots, Johannesburg 408 free Wi-Fi hotspots, and Ekurhuleni 408 free Wi-Fi hotspots.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/156079-gauteng-premier-promises-100-broadband-connectivity-by-2019.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/86448-far-cry-primal-review-roundup.html\">Far Cry Primal Review Roundup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86438-an-affordable-virtual-reality-ready-pc-will-cost-how-much.html\">An affordable virtual reality ready PC will cost how much?!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86430-the-most-expensive-vr-system-yet-htc-vive-priced-at-r12300.html\">The most expensive VR system yet: HTC Vive priced at R12,300<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng Premier David Makhura promised that Gauteng will reach 100% broadband connectivity by 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":80975,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[2674,2437,15649,1969],"class_list":["post-86456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-1","tag-gauteng","tag-internet-connectivity","tag-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86456","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}