{"id":550986,"date":"2006-12-03T23:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T23:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550986-the-real-wireless-broadband-subscriber-base.html"},"modified":"2006-12-03T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T23:34:13","slug":"the-real-wireless-broadband-subscriber-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550986-the-real-wireless-broadband-subscriber-base.html","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018real\u2019 wireless broadband subscriber base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Speaking at the recent MyADSL Broadband conference Winston Smith, product manager of Data Services at Sentech, said that the current wireless broadband market share is divided as follows: Vodacom-49%, MTN-38%, iBurst-11% and Sentech-2%.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Vodacom has recently announced that they have around 110 000 broadband subscribers, which then means that there are around 225 000 wireless broadband users.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to Smith\u2019s figures MTN has 86 000 subscribers, iBurst 25 000 and Sentech 4500. While these figures are debatable it is most likely not too far off.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">MTN has recently indicated that they had 130 000 3G\/HSDPA subscribers, but this figure is most likely based mainly on mobile phone users rather than data card users.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">iBurst has also indicated that they now have in excess of 30 000 subscribers which is somewhat higher than Smith\u2019s figures may indicate, but the break down given by Smith is definitely a good indication of market share in the wireless broadband arena.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=60192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exact number of wireless broadband subscribers is not always available from operators, but a recent presentation claims to end all of the confusion.<\/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-550986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550986"}],"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=550986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}