{"id":2173,"date":"2007-12-07T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-07T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T05:08:00","slug":"dial-up-internet-far-from-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/2173-dial-up-internet-far-from-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Dial-Up Internet \u00e2\u20ac\u201c far from dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of broadband subscribers is increasing at a rapid rate, but there are currently still more dial-up subscribers than broadband users.<\/p>\n<p>According to information released by Telkom there are currently around 946 000 dial-up subscribers, more than the current 800 000 broadband users in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom Internet&nbsp;currently has 227 066 dial-up subscribers, maintaining its 24% market share in an arena where MWEB dominates.<\/p>\n<p>A recent incentive from Telkom where ISPs get some of the call-revenues from their dial-up subscribers &ndash; given that the ISP resell Telkom accounts &ndash; may further convince some ISPs to keep customers on dial-up rather than move them over to the low-profit ADSL service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=96808\">Comment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are still more dial-up users in South Africa than broadband subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}