{"id":3058,"date":"2008-03-04T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-04T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T22:14:00","slug":"2-million-broadband-users-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/3058-2-million-broadband-users-in-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"2 Million Broadband users in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadband growth is accelerating in South Africa, a trend which has been witnessed worldwide. With decreasing prices and increased availability more consumers are dumping their dial-up connections in preference of ADSL or high speed wireless connections.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vodacom Business&rsquo; Wally Beelders South Africa will have between 1.5 Million and 2 Million broadband subscribers by 2010.<\/p>\n<p>This will be made up mostly by HSDPA customers from Vodacom and MTN. Some analysts predict around 1 Million 3G\/HSDPA subscribers in 2010, with other wireless technologies like WiMax, WiFi, CDMA2000 and iBurst adding a few hundred thousand to the total.<\/p>\n<p>ADSL will most likely be the second most popular broadband access technology behind 3G\/HSDPA, with Telkom&rsquo;s predictions falling in at around 800 000 ADSL subscribers by 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=108576\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts expect South Africa to reach 2 Million broadband users by 2010.<\/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-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058"}],"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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}