South Africa Showcased On Social Media Today Podcast
I was invited to be a part of the Social Media Collective a few months back – a real privilege to share in the conversations of some of the leading minds in the global social media space.
Maggie Fox, a prominent member of the Collective based in Canada, produces a weekly podcast in which she interviews individuals from the group. I was lucky enough to be picked for this week’s podcast. You can check it out at her blog here, or click on the link below to listen to it…
Listen to Maggie Fox and Mike Stopforth on the Social Media Today Podcast (MP3)
I hope I did us justice :)
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Nice Mike. You get a hi 5 and an African hand shake. :P
Great job. I liked it also.
Hi Mike
Nice podcast and an interesting discussion indeed. Just one correction: we currently have less that 500 000 broadband users. You mentioned 1.6 million, but we are certainly very far from that. telkom mentioned that they are looking at around 700 000 ADSL connections by 2011…so will be some time before we reach that.
Hey RPM. Sorry for the mistake. However, I’ve quoted figures similar to yours before and been corrected then too. It seems between wireless and fixed line broadband providers there is some contradictory reporting.
Can you give me the exact numbers and a source?
Hi Mike
This is currently the best official ‘estimates’ around: http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5607
We are however waiting for MTN’s latest figures (http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6015) and it is always difficult to judge the number of WISP subscribers…
I am however confident that the figure is sitting at around half a million: ADSL – 230 000, Vodacom HSDPA – 140 000, iBurst – 35 000, Sentech MyWireless – 5 000, WISP – 35 000, MTN – 50 000???
I hope this helps. And BTW: If anybody criticizes these figures tell them to bugger off…they are as accurate as it comes :-)
Sweet Mike awesoem representation of ZA, thanks.
Hi Mike – so glad you enjoyed our chat, I really did as well, and I will update the show notes re: broadband use with the links above!