{"id":97465,"date":"2015-03-08T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=97465"},"modified":"2015-03-08T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T09:04:56","slug":"surfline-picks-huawei-for-nationwide-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=97465","title":{"rendered":"Surfline picks Huawei for nationwide expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s first mobile telecommunications operator to deploy an LTE network, Surfline\u00a0has selected China\u2019s Huawei Technologies for its expansion works.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;dpwIH2h21F6t206M0z5w1eAIgwrTKDaj&#8221;]Currently, Surfline\u2019s data service is only available in Accra and Tema in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at the just ended Mobile World Congress.<\/p>\n<p>This was after a rigorous evaluation process which saw Huawei emerge the top vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Surfline is already using the Chinese company\u2019s devises for its mifi, modem and other devices and the it is also known worldwide for its success in frequency division duplex (FDD).<\/p>\n<p>Once completed, Surfline will boast 700+ cell sites, making it one of the world\u2019s largest independent LTE networks, a feat for the country\u2019s only telecommunications network that is wholly owned by Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion move is also part of demands by the regulator, the National Communications Authority (NCA) as well as the company\u2019s ambitions to meet growing demands for its services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surfline gets $30m to expand LTE network<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vantage Mezzanine has announced it <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/05\/surfline-gets-30m-to-expand-lte-network\/#sthash.Yv5t2uVe.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>concluded a transaction<\/strong><\/span><\/a> with Ghana operator Surfline Communications to provide USD 30 million of expansion capital to the company together with a fund co-investor.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be used for the on-going expansion of Surfline\u2019s LTE network in Ghana as well as to grow its product distribution and marketing network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s first mobile telecommunications operator to deploy an LTE network, Surfline\u00a0has selected China\u2019s Huawei Technologies for its expansion works. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;dpwIH2h21F6t206M0z5w1eAIgwrTKDaj&#8221;]Currently, Surfline\u2019s data service is only available in Accra and Tema in the Greater Accra Region. The announcement was made at the just ended Mobile World Congress. This was after a rigorous evaluation process which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":97467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,38],"class_list":["post-97465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-akwasi-osei","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}