I'm on an internet ranting mission. I'm amazed at the lack of understanding in the market about how internet access is charged for and how people are getting ripped.
Had a conversation with someone the other day who said MWeb uncapped was competit...
When MWeb announced uncapped internet in this country, the market went crazy. Competitors followed with similar offerings within days and analysts announced the breaking of a new dawn. Most people failed to mention that it was a rip-off and in everyo...
After all the euphoria, back-patting and chest-thumping of the MWeb uncapped DSL offering, which spurred on other ISPs to follow suit, we are now going through the first major test of what happens when real service delivery (this time not the governm...
The announcement last week that Naspers has put MWeb up for auction created a stir of surprise, but not shock.
Is the decision by Naspers to sell MWeb a vote of no confidence in the internet? Hardly. If anything, it declares the opposite: a recogn...
"No economy can grow by excluding any part of its people, and an economy that is not growing cannot integrate all of its citizens in a meaningful way." - from South Africa's black economic empowerment strategy document.
At the end of May I start...
A personal account of how the web industry got started, and some of the colourful characters who populated it
I guess it's starting to feel like I'm running out of time to write this piece. I'm getting, well, old, frankly. The next web generation ...
