{"id":276750,"date":"2025-09-02T01:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/operator-news\/18993-mtn-and-vodacom-announce-technology-deployment-firsts.html"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:22:54","slug":"mtn-and-vodacom-announce-technology-deployment-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=276750","title":{"rendered":"MTN and Vodacom announce technology deployment firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Places\/Cape_Town_UCT_Upper_Campus_600.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two of Africa\u2019s biggest operators \u2013 Vodacom and MTN \u2013 have, coincidentally, announced technology deployment firsts for the continent in the past few days \u2013 one involving MIMO, the other involving 5-band RRU commercial deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Africa\u2019s biggest operators \u2013 Vodacom and MTN \u2013 have, coincidentally, announced technology deployment firsts for the continent in the past few days \u2013 one involving MIMO, the other involving 5-band RRU commercial deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operators"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276751,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276750\/revisions\/276751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}