{"id":10751,"date":"2012-05-27T22:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/airtel-says-to-roll-out-3g-in-rwanda-in-next-quarter\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T22:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:09:32","slug":"airtel-says-to-roll-out-3g-in-rwanda-in-next-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/airtel-says-to-roll-out-3g-in-rwanda-in-next-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel says to roll out 3G in Rwanda in next quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">NAIROBI<\/span> May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s Bharti Airtel<br \/>\nsaid on Sunday it would roll out 3G services in Rwanda in the<br \/>\nnext quarter and reiterated plans to invest $100 million in the<br \/>\ncentral African country.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Airtel launched its mobile services in Rwanda in March, and<br \/>\npresently runs a 2G network. It said then that IBM and<br \/>\nEricsson would help build and manage its network.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although Kigali is currently operating on a 2G network, the<br \/>\ncompany also plans to launch 3G services in the market within<br \/>\nthe upcoming quarter,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Airtel plans to invest $100 million in its operations over<br \/>\nthe next three years and will work towards generating both<br \/>\ndirect and indirect employment opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other telecoms firms operating in Rwanda include MTN Rwanda,<br \/>\na unit of the South African company MTN and Tigo Rwanda<br \/>\nowned by Millicom International Cellular.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As of September, the country had 4.1 million mobile phone<br \/>\nsubscribers out of its 10.4 million population.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by George Obulutsa)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s Bharti Airtel said on Sunday it would roll out 3G services in Rwanda in the next quarter and reiterated plans to invest $100 million in the central African country. Airtel launched its mobile services in Rwanda in March, and presently runs a 2G network. It said then that IBM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}