If you can't beat them, buy them
Afrihost is set to acquire a majority stake in Cool ldeas, making it by far the largest independent Internet service provider (ISP) in South Africa.
Afrihost was founded in 1999 by three friends — Gian Visser, Brendan Armstrong, and Peter Meintjes — as a hosting company.
It showed strong growth and became one of the biggest players in South Africa’s retail hosting market.
It was not their hosting products that propelled them to a billion-rand company twenty years later, however. It was their move into broadband.
Afrihost is set to acquire a majority stake in Cool ldeas, making it by far the largest independent Internet service provider (ISP) in South Africa.
Afrihost was founded in 1999 by three friends — Gian Visser, Brendan Armstrong, and Peter Meintjes — as a hosting company.
It showed strong growth and became one of the biggest players in South Africa’s retail hosting market.
It was not their hosting products that propelled them to a billion-rand company twenty years later, however. It was their move into broadband.