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Web Africa's firm support for ADSL
ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 9 September
2007
It’s clear from a recent Finweek interview with Web Africa’s Matthew Tagg that Web Africa strongly believes in the future of ADSL in South Africa.
Who is Matthew Tagg?
Matthew Tagg is the Founder and Managing Director of well-known South African
ISP, Web
Africa.
Tagg ‘…started Web Africa 10 years ago while still in matric…’ (Taking on the big boys, Ben Kelly, Finweek, 4
September 2007).
In other words, Tagg is the schoolboy who had
the brains and guts to start his own successful company, Web Africa.
Tagg is not your normal company owner ‘…considering that his idea of relaxing
includes fast cars, fast bikes and throwing himself out of aircraft…’ (Taking on the big boys, Ben Kelly, Finweek,
4 September 2007).
In other words, Tagg can be described as an adrenaline junky and someone that’s keen
to take on challenges.
On what grounds do you write ‘Web
Africa strongly
believes in the future of ADSL in South Africa’?
Tagg made Web Africa’s support for ADSL clear in the Finweek interview.
According to Tagg, Web Africa ‘…has chosen to focus selling ADSL services as this is the technology with the most long
term promise’ (Taking on the big boys, Ben Kelly, Finweek, 4 September 2007). Tagg ‘…does not believe that the
wireless services, even Wimax, will be able to offer the
speeds that customers will be demanding in the near future’ (Taking on the big boys, Ben Kelly, Finweek, 4
September 2007).
In other words, it’s clear that Tagg strongly believes in the future of ADSL in South
Africa, based for one on his believe that wireless Internet access services will not be able to offer us the speeds
we will want in the near future.
“Whatever the structure of the service we offer, the potential market is massive.
Currently, there are only 250 000 ADSL subscribers in the SA market, which is a tiny subset of the total
population. That leaves lots of room for us to grow” (Taking on the big boys, Ben Kelly, Finweek, 4 September
2007).
In other words, it’s safe to assume that thousands of South Africans are still
waiting to jump on the ADSL broadband wagon, and will do so over the next couple of years as the cost of getting an
ADSL connection continues to decline.
‘Web Africa now
supports 17 000 ADSL subscribers, plus another 4 000 hosting clients, with the number of ADSL customers growing by
around 1 500/month’ (Taking on the big boys, Ben Kelly, Finweek, 4 September 2007).
In other words, it’s clear from Web Africa’s stats that many South Africans are jumping on the ADSL broadband bandwagon every
month.
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