Internet Solutions Managing Director Saki Missaikos said MWEB will be run as a separate entity after its planned acquisition.<\/p>\n
On 2 December,\u00a0Internet Solutions announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it had entered an agreement to acquire MWEB Connect for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n The transaction is subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities and shareholders. If successful, the transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n \u201cMWEB is one of South Africa\u2019s largest consumer ISPs and this acquisition will immediately give Internet Solutions a presence in the large and rapidly-growing consumer market,\u201d said Missaikos.<\/p>\n Questions have been raised on how MWEB will be integrated into Internet Solutions, and whether MWEB and AlwaysOn will merge.<\/p>\n Internet Solutions told MyBroadband that AlwaysOn\u2019s strategy remains as is<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and it is business as usual at the company.<\/p>\n Speaking on TalkCentral<\/strong><\/a>, Missaikos said MWEB \u201cwill be run separately\u201d, adding that they hope to learn from MWEB\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have been doing it for 15 years. They know how to do this,\u201d said Missaikos.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do not understand the consumer as well as MWEB does. So for us it is very much to keep it as a standalone business.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think the worst thing we can do is to integrate it into our areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom a call centre perspective, go to market, and marketing, we want to leverage what they\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n Internet Solutions Managing Director Saki Missaikos said MWEB will be run as a separate entity after its planned acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1779,35,391,213,11285],"class_list":["post-191184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-alwayson","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions","tag-mweb","tag-saki-missaikos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191304,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191184\/revisions\/191304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Internet Solutions to buy MWEB<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"