{"id":8570,"date":"2014-07-05T07:07:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T11:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=8570"},"modified":"2014-08-04T01:53:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T05:53:22","slug":"somtel-telecom-to-introduce-lte-technology-into-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8570","title":{"rendered":"Somtel Telecom to introduce LTE technology into Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4g-lte23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8571 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4g-lte23-300x159.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4g-lte23-300x159.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4g-lte23-220x116.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4g-lte23.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the largest telecommunication service providers in Somalia, Somtel Telecom, has partnered with France&#8217;s Alcatel-Lucent to provide Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The high speed wireless data transfer system is expected to enable the telecom service provider improve and expand its range of services.<\/p>\n<p>Somtel board member, Saeed Dualeh, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanipo.com\/news\/44123\/somtel-alcatel-lucent-partner-for-somali-lte-deployment\/\">announced<\/a> the news to the media in Nairobi, further disclosed that tests are already underway on the proposed LTE sites and services.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that up to 70 locations have already been earmarked for the technology to be installed.<\/p>\n<p>Somtel Telecom, owned by Dahabshiil, provides voice and data services for more than 30% of the country&#8217;s total subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the company entered into an agreement with O3b Networks to improve its services by increasing the speed and reducing the latency of its satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Photo\/Telecoms Tech News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest telecommunication service providers in Somalia, Somtel Telecom, has partnered with France&#8217;s Alcatel-Lucent to provide Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in the country. The high speed wireless data transfer system is expected to enable the telecom service<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8570\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,409,1],"tags":[2933,2580,2934,2936,2935,2932,2931],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}