{"id":23980,"date":"2012-10-10T13:13:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=23980"},"modified":"2012-10-10T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:53:09","slug":"mybroadband-awards-2012-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/23980\/mybroadband-awards-2012-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"MyBroadband Awards 2012 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2012 MyBroadband awards were handed out during the company\u2019s annual conference at Vodacom World today (10 October 2012), rewarding the top performers in South Africa\u2019s broadband and telecommunications market over the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

The awards are based on two surveys which attracted over 20,000 responses from South African consumers and industry players.<\/p>\n

Data from the MyBroadband speed test server and pricing data were also used to select the winners in the broadband categories.<\/p>\n

Honorary awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year MyBroadband replaced the customary “broadband maverick of the year” with two honorary awards to pay respect to individuals who had a significant impact on the South African broadband environment.<\/p>\n

The first honorary award went to former MWEB<\/a> CEO Rudi Jansen<\/a> for launching affordable uncapped ADSL services, and through this initiative changing the South African broadband landscape forever.<\/p>\n

\"Rudi<\/a>

Rudi Jansen – MWEB CEO<\/p><\/div>\n

The second honorary award went to former Vodacom<\/a> CEO Pieter Uys<\/a> for his role in driving innovation in the mobile broadband space, and for making South Africa one of the leaders in the mobile broadband space.<\/p>\n

\"Pieter<\/a>

Pieter Uys<\/p><\/div>\n

IT person of the year<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2012 MyBroadband IT person of the year is Alan Knott-Craig<\/a>. He was a runaway winner in this category, notching up well above half of all the votes.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig is busy transforming Cell C<\/a>, and as part of this process he slashed the prices of mobile calls and mobile data.<\/p>\n

\"Alan<\/a>

Alan Knott-Craig<\/p><\/div>\n

Fixed broadband service of the year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Telkom<\/a>\u2019s 10Mbps ADSL service won the best fixed broadband award, comfortably beating competing fixed wireless services from Neotel<\/a> and iBurst<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Telkom<\/a>

Telkom direct store<\/p><\/div>\n

Mobile broadband service of the year<\/strong><\/p>\n

In one of the closest contests ever, Cell C beat 8ta<\/a> by less than 1% to win the award for best mobile broadband service of the year.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>

New Cell C head office mock image<\/p><\/div>\n

ADSL ISP of the year<\/strong><\/p>\n

In another very close contest, Afrihost<\/a> won the 2012 ISP of the year award ahead of rivals MWEB and Web Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Afrihost\"<\/a>

Afrihost: Brendan Armstrong, Gian Visser, Greg Payne, Peter Meintjes<\/p><\/div>\n

Mampara of the year<\/strong><\/p>\n

ICASA<\/a> is not the most efficient regulator around, and Government is continuing to hamstring Telkom with their shenanigans.<\/p>\n

But the eventual loser – partly because of dragging its feet with handing out LTE<\/a> spectrum, its dubious finances at the ICT Indaba<\/a>, and for not doing enough to assist the telecoms industry – is The Department of Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Dina<\/a>

Deputy communications minister Stella Ndabeni, and communications minister Dina Pule<\/p><\/div>\n

Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

2011 MyBroadband awards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2010 MyBroadband Awards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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