{"id":90471,"date":"2016-04-25T15:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90471"},"modified":"2016-04-25T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:39:42","slug":"cell-c-lte-advanced-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/90471-cell-c-lte-advanced-launched","title":{"rendered":"Cell C LTE-Advanced launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has announced the commercial availability of its LTE-Advanced\u00a0network in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>The roll-out of LTE-A in KwaZulu-Natal will commence in the coming months and will be completed in the third quarter of this year, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>LTE-A is available on the following handsets, classified as Category 6 handsets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samsung Note 5 (SM\u2013920C)<\/li>\n<li>Samsung S6 Edge\u00a0(SM-G928C)<\/li>\n<li>Apple iPhone 6S<\/li>\n<li>Apple iPhone 6S Plus<\/li>\n<li>Huawei Mate 8_DS<\/li>\n<li>Samsung S7 Flat (G930F)<\/li>\n<li>Samsung S7 Edge (G935F)<\/li>\n<li>LG G5 (H850)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cell C promised that more handsets and stand-alone data devices that support its LTE-A network will become available in time.<\/p>\n<p>Users\u00a0will not see a different symbol for LTE-A on these handsets, said Cell C, with some showing \u201c4G\u201d, while others will show \u201cLTE\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, it said subscribers within an LTE-A coverage area with one of these devices can expect to experience download speeds of up to 100Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C demonstrated its LTE-A capabilities at AfricaCom last year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/146729-cell-cs-lte-advanced-hits-138mbps.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>demonstrating speeds of up to 138Mbps<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we need now is the spectrum to become available,\u201d said Cell C.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on broadband in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/90403-you-can-get-free-wi-fi-on-freedom-day.html\"><strong>You can get free Wi-Fi on Freedom Day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89561-adsl-gaming-trouble-how-to-test-your-connection.html\"><strong>ADSL gaming trouble? How to test your connection<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87904-best-mobile-broadband-connection-for-gaming.html\"><strong>Best mobile broadband connection for gaming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87892-epic-broadband-for-gamers-400mbps-fibre-for-r599.html\"><strong>Epic broadband for gamers: 400Mbps fibre for R599<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has announced the commercial availability of its LTE-Advanced network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":37685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[31,1566,18269,18271],"class_list":["post-90471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-cell-c","tag-long-term-evolution-lte","tag-lte-advanced-lte-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90471","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90475,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90471\/revisions\/90475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}