{"id":2591,"date":"2008-01-22T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-22T01:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T23:03:00","slug":"massive-growth-for-wireless-isps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/2591-massive-growth-for-wireless-isps.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive growth for Wireless ISPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wireless Access Providers Association of South Africa (WAPA) recently conducted a study into the wireless fixed access provider (WISP) market. <\/p>\n<p>The WAPA study showed significant growth in subscriber numbers, revenue and job creation. According to the survey, WISPs showed an 80% growth in subscriber numbers. The WISP market is estimated to be made up of 40% residential customers and 60% business customers.<\/p>\n<p>The 32 WAPA members who partook in the survey grew their revenue by 26% to R 53 Million in 2007. There was also a 41% growth in the number of staff employed which is a positive sign that job creation goes hand in hand with a more liberalized telecoms market.<\/p>\n<p>WAPA members also increased their involvement in social responsibility projects, and the number of projects grew by 42% to 192 over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>WAPA estimates the total number of subscribers served by WISPs is around 40 000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=102104\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wireless Internet Service Providers have shown massive growth over the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591"}],"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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}