MWEB\u2019s consumer Internet service provider division will remain a standalone business under Internet Solutions, IS CEO Saki Missaikos told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the joint open access Wi-Fi venture with Naspers, VAST Networks, will continue to operate independently.<\/p>\n
Internet Solutions is also handling wholesale network services for MWEB, added Missaikos.<\/p>\n
Missaikos said Internet Solutions has effectively provided wholesale network services to MWEB, including IP Connect – Telkom\u2019s wholesale ADSL product – for the past four years.<\/p>\n
He said MWEB received these services from Optinet, and when it acquired the company from Naspers, it effectively became MWEB\u2019s wholesale provider.<\/p>\n
Internet Solutions completed its acquisition of MWEB<\/strong><\/a> in May. This followed the acquisition of MWEB Business and Optinet from Naspers.<\/p>\n Plugg, another consumer brand under Internet Solutions, was folded into Ignite and AlwaysOn last year.<\/p>\n Missaikos said there are no plans to merge MWEB with AlwaysOn, however, or to fold AlwaysOn into MWEB.<\/p>\n What subscribers can look forward to is more partnerships<\/strong><\/a>, such as MWEB clients being able to access AlwaysOn hotspots as part of their package.<\/p>\n Missaikos added that there are no plans to shut down MWEB\u2019s Fon Wi-Fi offering<\/strong><\/a>, either, or to replace it with their own Wi-Fi offloading network.<\/p>\n Instead, Internet Solutions plans<\/strong><\/a> to expand VAST\u2019s infrastructure to provide wholesale access to unlicensed spectrum for mobile operators to use in Licensed Assisted Access, or LTE-Unlicensed networks.<\/p>\n Internet Solutions CEO Saki Missaikos talks about their plans for the popular ISP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[4],"tags":[1779,23187,35,20077,19158,43824,213,1643,22297,11285,36886],"class_list":["post-215640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-alwayson","tag-fon","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions-is","tag-ip-connect-ipc","tag-licensed-assisted-access-laa","tag-mweb","tag-naspers","tag-optinet","tag-saki-missaikos","tag-vast-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215640"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215684,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215640\/revisions\/215684"}],"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=215640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Internet Solutions\u2019 plan to support blazingly-fast 4G and 5G networks in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"