{"id":459065,"date":"2022-09-04T18:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=459065"},"modified":"2022-09-04T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T16:34:19","slug":"afrihost-report-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/459065-afrihost-report-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost report released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/analytico.co.za\/\"><strong>Analytico<\/strong><\/a> has released a new report titled \u201c<strong>Afrihost &#8211; Opportunities and Risks<\/strong>\u201d, which gives an overview of Afrihost&#8217;s strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost was started as a web hosting company in 1999, offering domain and hosting packages at R150 per month, significantly lower than the market price at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The company moderately well in the retail hosting market, but it accelerated its growth after launching its R29 per GB data ADSL products in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>They signed up thousands of customers within weeks and quickly became one of the largest ADSL service providers in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost continued to grow its market share by launching new connectivity products, including mobile data, LTE, and fibre.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost also expanded through acquisition. It bought two of South Africa\u2019s top Internet service providers &#8211; Axxess and Cool Ideas \u2013 in 2011 and 2021, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Afrihost is one of South Africa\u2019s premier Internet service providers (ISPs) with over 400,000 fibre, DSL, LTE, mobile data, and hosting subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>The service provider generates over R1.5 billion in revenue annually and has around 500 employees.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Afrihost &#8211; Opportunities and Risks<\/strong> report delves into Afrihost\u2019s exceptional brand awareness, its comparative position in the market, and its strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>It also highlights where there are opportunities for Afrihost to grow and whether it has risks which can lead to market share loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Afrihost report is available for free to <a href=\"https:\/\/analytico.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Analytico subscribers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analytico has released a new report titled \u201cAfrihost &#8211; Opportunities and Risks\u201d, which gives an overview of the ISP\u2019s strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":428172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1669,64917],"class_list":["post-459065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-afrihost","tag-analytico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459065"}],"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=459065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}