“You can’t do video-on-demand in a capped world,” he said. He said in the interview that he hoped the move would be the first step to getting streaming and cloud-based services available in places such as the US and Europe in South Africa - that wish has certainly been more than fulfilled! In an interview with TechCentral in 2012, when he stepped down as Mweb CEO, Jansen said it had been “great to have been part of something so fundamental to changing the industry”. In an interview in 2012, Jansen said it had been ‘great to have been part of something so fundamental to changing the industry’ His innovation at Mweb, though initially greeted with scepticism from industry colleagues, was quickly replicated by other Internet service providers, in the process driving down data prices for South African consumers and heralding a more competitive era for broadband Internet access in the country. Until then, ADSL - the way most consumers at the time connected to the Internet - had been an entirely capped service. Widely respected in South Africa’s telecommunications industry, Jansen - an avid Stormers supporter - pioneered uncapped consumer Internet services in South Africa as CEO of Mweb. Jansen passed away on Saturday from a heart attack, according to an industry colleague. Rudi Jansen, a former CEO of Mweb and a pioneer in South Africa’s early Internet industry, has died. Rudi Jansen, photographed when he was Mweb CEO
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