{"id":94841,"date":"2016-06-11T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94841"},"modified":"2016-06-11T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:09:53","slug":"vodacom-is-the-shiz-south-african-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/94841-vodacom-is-the-shiz-south-african-youth","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom is the shiz \u2013 South African youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom\u00a0has held onto its crown as the coolest telecommunication provider in South Africa.<\/p>\n

It is awarded the title based on the results\u00a0of the\u00a0Sunday Times Generation Next youth survey, which is in its 12th year.<\/p>\n

The biggest moves in this year’s telecoms ranking\u00a0was MTN losing its second place spot to Cell C.<\/p>\n

DStv and Google also slipped from their first and second places as coolest companies in South Africa to fourth and sixth, while Apple climbed from third to second.<\/p>\n

Times Media said it polled the opinions of 5,500 young urban South Africans (aged 8\u201322) to establish which brands are \u201cthe coolest of the cool in 2016\u201d.<\/p>\n

Overall coolest brand was awarded to Nike, with Samsung, Apple, and Xbox<\/a><\/strong> making an appearance in the top 10.<\/p>\n

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Coolest telecoms provider<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nCoolest Telecoms Providers 2016<\/th>\nCoolest Telecoms Providers 2015<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nVodacom<\/td>\nVodacom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nCell C<\/td>\nMTN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nMTN<\/td>\nCell C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nTelkom\/Telkom Mobile<\/td>\nTelkom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nVirgin Mobile<\/td>\nVirgin Mobile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nNeotel<\/td>\nTelkom Mobile (8ta)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nOther<\/td>\nNeotel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n<\/td>\nOther<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

Coolest companies<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nCoolest Companies 2016<\/th>\nCoolest Companies 2015<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nBMW<\/td>\nDStv<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nApple<\/td>\nGoogle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nNike<\/td>\nApple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nDStv<\/td>\nBMW<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nSamsung<\/td>\nSamsung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nGoogle<\/td>\nNike<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nadidas<\/td>\nMr Price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nKFC<\/td>\nFacebook<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nWoolworths<\/td>\nCoca-Cola<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nSony<\/td>\nWoolworths<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The demographics of the study are summarised in the graphs below.<\/p>\n

\"Sunday<\/a><\/p>\n

More on\u00a0Vodacom<\/h3>\n

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Vodacom shares why South Africa is falling behind on broadband<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is how fast Vodacom\u2019s new LTE-U is<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the network operators South Africa\u2019s youth say are the coolest, according to the 2016 Sunday Times Generation Next survey results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":92481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812,2226],"tags":[31,1566,1570,1571,287,19367,817],"class_list":["post-94841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-cell-c","tag-mtn","tag-neotel","tag-telkom","tag-virgin-mobile","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}