{"id":550155,"date":"2006-09-12T11:53:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T11:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550155-how-can-a-start-up-isp-survive.html"},"modified":"2006-09-12T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T11:53:17","slug":"how-can-a-start-up-isp-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550155-how-can-a-start-up-isp-survive.html","title":{"rendered":"How can a start-up ISP survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">But the good news is that the industry is still as exciting and dynamic as when Mark Todes and David Frankel, two of the pioneers behind the launch of ISPA, started out.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe industry is still as exciting as when we started,\u201d said Todes.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The advice that Frankel gave to start-up ISPs wishing to crack the market was to push the envelope.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIt is tough to compete with the big guys on their own territory, you need to find innovative ways to enter the industry. ISPs need to push the envelope,\u201d said Frankel.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Todes added that opportunities abound for new entrants to the market.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cOpportunities for creating good businesses still abound, as new technology comes on board there are new opportunities. ISPs need to find right balance of levels of service and gaining market share,\u2019 said Todes.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=53098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s ISP (Internet Service Provider) market is particularly tough since the country is still lumbered with a monopoly incumbent operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550155"}],"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=550155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}