{"id":48289,"date":"2013-11-01T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=48289"},"modified":"2013-11-01T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:41:33","slug":"sas-most-engaging-mobile-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/48289\/sas-most-engaging-mobile-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s most engaging mobile operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data from social media analyst firm, ZASocial Media, reveals which of South Africa&#8217;s mobile operators getting fan engagement right on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>According to the firm&#8217;s data, which tracked user engagement with the operators between September 11 and October 12 of this year, MTN is the most engaging service provider on the Facebook platform.<\/p>\n<p>With over 166,000 fans, MTN comes second to SA&#8217;s largest movile operator, Vodacom (307,000 fans) when it comes to the sheer number of users &#8220;subscribing&#8221; to its Facebook feed &#8211; but tops SA&#8217;s number 1 by having more than double the likes, shares and comments on its posted content.<\/p>\n<p>This results in MTN having an engagement rate of 5.7% with its Facebook fans, versus Vodacom&#8217;s 1.7%<\/p>\n<p>While significantly smaller than the big operators, with just over 45,500 fans, Telkom Mobile is the second most engaging operator on Facebook, with an engagement rate of 3.2%.<\/p>\n<p>While all the other operators reach their users through the posting of &#8220;general content&#8221; &#8211; which includes random factoids or non-brand-specific posts &#8211; Telkom Mobile&#8217;s most engaging content is found through its promotional content.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Operator<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Facebook Fans<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>&#8220;People talking about this&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Engagement<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN<\/td>\n<td>166,711<\/td>\n<td>9,607<\/td>\n<td>5.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Telkom Mobile<\/td>\n<td>45,589<\/td>\n<td>1,467<\/td>\n<td>3.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vodacom<\/td>\n<td>307,196<\/td>\n<td>5,384<\/td>\n<td>1.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cell C<\/td>\n<td>76,805<\/td>\n<td>1,073<\/td>\n<td>1.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_48292\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MNO-content-performance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48292\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48292\" alt=\"MNO content performance\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MNO-content-performance-1024x559.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MNO-content-performance-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MNO-content-performance-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MNO-content-performance.png 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MNO content performance<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Customer service response rates<\/h3>\n<p>When it comes to dealing with customer complaints on Facebook, all the operators covered in the study respond to the vast majority of complaints within 3 hours of them being posted.<\/p>\n<p>According to ZASocial Media, Vodacom is the most efficient at dealing with customer feedback, dealing with 97.2% of customer requests within 3 hours of posting. Only 0.2% of these posts don&#8217;t get a response.<\/p>\n<p>MTN deals with the lowest amount (95.1%) of customer comments within 3 hours &#8211; but Cell C is the worst offender at not responding at all, with 0.8% of Facebook posts not getting a response.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Operator<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>0-3 hour response rate<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>No response<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vodacom<\/td>\n<td>97.2%<\/td>\n<td>0.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Telkom Mobile<\/td>\n<td>95.9%<\/td>\n<td>0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cell C<\/td>\n<td>95.4%<\/td>\n<td>0.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN<\/td>\n<td>95.1%<\/td>\n<td>0.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on SA mobile operators<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Mobile subscribers in SA: who\u2019s eating whose lunch?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/44164\/mobile-subscribers-in-sa-whos-eating-whose-lunch\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mobile subscribers in SA: who\u2019s eating whose lunch?<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN continues to lose SA subscribers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/44117\/mtn-continues-to-lose-sa-subscribers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN continues to lose SA subscribers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom\u2019s modest mobile numbers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/39980\/telkoms-modest-mobile-numbers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom\u2019s modest mobile numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom: the good and the not so good\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/42270\/vodacom-the-good-and-the-not-so-good\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom: the good and the not so good<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cell C sign-ups boom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/43272\/cell-c-sign-ups-boom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cell C sign-ups boom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data from social media analyst firm, ZASocial Media, reveals which of South Africa&#8217;s mobile operators getting fan engagement right on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,45,26,6899,28,69,1075,27],"class_list":["post-48289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cell-c","tag-facebook","tag-headline","tag-mobile-operators","tag-mtn","tag-social-media","tag-telkom-mobile","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48396,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48289\/revisions\/48396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}