{"id":92553,"date":"2016-05-21T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T10:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=92553"},"modified":"2016-05-21T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T10:05:32","slug":"vodacom-shares-why-south-africa-is-falling-behind-on-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/92553-vodacom-shares-why-south-africa-is-falling-behind-on-broadband","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom shares why South Africa is falling behind on broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lack of readily available radio frequency spectrum is hobbling\u00a0South Africa\u2019s national broadband hopes, said Vodacom to Fin24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In particular, the South African government has been behind in implementing its digital broadcast migration project – opening the pathways to faster frequencies like 4G.<\/p>\n

“Government only started distributing a few thousand of its 5 million free digital TV set-top boxes for the poor late last year after missing several self-imposed deadlines since 2008.”<\/p>\n

This has forced service providers like Vodacom and MTN to re-use their existing LTE spectrum, resulting in poorer service.<\/p>\n

“Vodacom, in its results announcement, also hinted at the problems it has experienced in attempting to attain spectrum in different ways.”<\/p>\n

In 2014, Vodacom embarked on a bid to buy Neotel for R7 billion – a deal that was initially planned to boost the mobile operator\u2019s fixed-line capabilities and attain Neotel\u2019s spectrum.<\/p>\n

This deal has subsequently fallen <\/a><\/strong>through, leaving Vodacom to look elsewhere for possible improvements.<\/p>\n

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This is why South African broadband isn’t where it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":75662,"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":[8812,2,2226],"tags":[18769,18767,18765,817],"class_list":["post-92553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-business","category-mobile","tag-behind","tag-failure","tag-rollout","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92553","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=92553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92779,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92553\/revisions\/92779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}