If ADSL does not come, satellites will allow internet connectivity. One insider tells me, also at Africa Telecom, that the SA authorities have applications before them to allow internet connectivity in SA via satellite. Platforms are converging. Only the content will matter. Traditional media barons tell themselves this every night before they go to sleep.
Content is king, they say.
They could add emperor, pope, queen and deity as far as the internet is concerned, but they've no reason to sleep easy. Most of them are still far too happy to put up yesterday's news on their website and do little to embrace the interactive possibilities of the medium. They do not e-mail the news to subscribers. I was struck by this again listening to Thabo Mbeki at the opening of Africa Telecom. Mbeki spoke of the future days when this wonderful internet platform will be used to deliver content for the development and upliftment of the continent.