This is Web Africa's first newsletter designed to put forth our ideas and thoughts on trends and developments in the local and international online community, and basically anything else that we think you may find interesting. We encourage you to send in comments, anecdotes, helpful tips and info that would be of benefit to everyone. The South African Internet industry is moving at cracking pace. The race to develop national and global backbones is on, and no one wants to be left out, including those companies that will be connecting the consumer to these backbones. Most modem manufacturers have developed 57.6KB modems although ISDN is becoming increasingly popular in South Africa.
Web TV is in the making too.
However it is unlikely that we will see them in SA any time soon as we do not have the cable network structures. The success of these machines is yet to be gauged. What is interesting to note is Multichoice seems to be offering an Internet connection via their DSTV decoders. Unfortunately at the time of writing their official web site has not yet been launched. The web tends to be democratic and two-way.