{"id":248,"date":"2005-08-12T22:10:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T20:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2005-08-12T22:10:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T20:10:29","slug":"broadband-boom-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Boom in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read some stats today that indicated Telkom have doubled their ADSL user base from 50 000 in Feb 2005, to 100 000 now, with a 20 000 waiting list.<\/p>\n<p>With both Vodacom and Telkom offering &#8216;free&#8217; computers and broadband access for an affordable monthly fee (I purposely avoid the term &#8216;reasonable&#8217;), it looks like the much-delayed broadbank boom is actually happening.<\/p>\n<p>There can only be good times ahead for the online industry in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read some stats today that indicated Telkom have doubled their ADSL user base from 50 000 in Feb 2005, to 100 000 now, with a 20 000 waiting list. With both Vodacom and Telkom offering &#8216;free&#8217; computers and broadband access for an affordable monthly fee (I purposely avoid the term &#8216;reasonable&#8217;), it looks like&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=248\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broadband Boom in SA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}