1 headquarters cape town south africa key people derek hershaw ceo 2 products adsl wifi fibre to the home web hosting voip gaming and email services parent naspers website mweb.co.za mweb was founded in 1997 and is today south africa s second largest internet service provider isp . 3 mweb offers a range of internet access offerings differentiated tools and services to approximately 320 000 customers . the company s main division mweb connect is focused on the residential and small business market . mweb is a subsidiary of global internet and entertainment company naspers 4 and its headquarters are located in the mweb building in parow cape town . 5 contents 1 history 2 company structure 3 external links 4 references history edit as one of the first internet service providers in south africa mweb launched dial up internet in south africa with the big black box in 1997 which was issued with a copy of tech expert arthur goldstuck s hitchhiker s guide to the internet 6 the best selling tech book in south africa at the time . in 2004 it also launched polka a low cost isp . 7 a year later the south african division of italian owned isp tiscali was acquired by mweb . 8 in 2006 its 3g mobile data offerings were launched and the company resold products from two of sa s largest mobile networks . 9 the company was later first to launch uncapped adsl in south africa in 2010 10 and brought the global fon wifi network 11 12 13 to south africa in 2014 . also in 2014 mweb launched its first fiber to the home packages . 14 in 2015 the company was restructured to focus mainly on the residential and small business market . company structure edit mweb is owned by multichoice south africa a subsidiary of jse listed naspers media group . mweb has 30 % broad based black economic empowerment shareholders . the isp operates nationally with its headquarters in cape town and offices in the cities of johannesburg and durban . the company initially had five retail stores in south africa . the retail stores were closed at the end of march opting to move all of their sales online . 15 external links edit mweb references edit 1 http whoswho.co.za derek hershaw 915603 http www.mweb.co.za aboutus corporateoverview milestones.aspx about . naspers . retrieved 2016 06 25 . http www.mweb.co.za aboutus find us http www.marklives.com 2012 07 brand journeys mweb not quite just like that http www.mweb.com who history.aspx 2 http www.mweb.co.za aboutus corporateoverview milestones.aspx http www.saha.org.za resources docs freedomhouse.pdf http www.fon.com http www.bdlive.co.za business technology 2014 01 20 mweb targets wifi subscriber growth on fon partnership http www.timeslive.co.za scitech 2014 01 16 fon times ahead mweb partners with wifi giant mweb fibre to the home prices announced . mybroadband . 2014 11 27 . retrieved 2016 06 25 . https www.techcentral.co.za mweb to close its retail stores 62904 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mweb & oldid 731777905 categories companies based in cape towninternet service providers of africacompanies established in 1997south african brandshidden categories use dmy dates from december 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 27 july 2016 at 13 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view