Fixed line broadband is dying a dinosaur like death.
This is a terrible article. Not because it informs us about the current trend (that is good) but because it is stating what has become painfully obvious – particularly to the South African consumer.
With the high cost of setting up wired connections it makes no sense to think that wired broadband would still be growing in this day in age.
What the article fails to do (as has been pointed by some opinion contributors in this discussion) is to provide information of real substance. What type of broadband is it and how and who is using it?
These questions if they had been answered in this article would have highlighted some of the self-defeating strategies that our local network operators are employing. For instance, I was told that you will not get broadband speeds on your smartphone even though it is capable of speeds in excess of say 10mbps like my phone. I had to go for a USB dongle because my high speed phone simply is not allowed to get that speed. Correct me if I am wrong. Or tell me what I need to do to get proper speeds on my smartphone. Having a high speed phone and using it as a modem did not get me the high speeds that our local operators have been shouting about (the phone works on all spectrum in SA at high speeds - well at least it is supposed to).
I went out and bought myself a high speed dongle and - 'low and behold' – there is actually high speed in SA.
So, what this article could have done is to delve deeper into the issue of broadband connections and highlighted exactly how mobile broadband is being used by the 558million connections i.e. smartphone or dongle (USB), etcetera.
There is no arguing that fixed line broadband is dying a rapid death especially in SA (I laugh at Telkom derisively).
What matters is how operators are (or not) facilitating the proliferation mobile broadband. In my opinion, these figures should have been much greater if the operators were not stifling its growth with the aim of making quick bucks. I can go on - e.g. R2.00/mb on oob, long-term contracts (12 and 24 mths for data) and no data only options (i.e. when you have your own modem) for longer term data bundles (why are there not three month, six month and nine month data bundles?) and 30 day expiries on data bundles. Cell C is an exception – we all now well and truly know that.
While I commend your article on re-iterating on a trend that every person on the street can see, try to give us more substance please in such similar reports - reports that will create constructive and progressive debate.
Fixed line facilitates wireless. 
