Skyrove In The Press
| DEC 2008 | ITWeb Brainstorm | Wireless warrior |
Henk Kleynhans` dream is to blanket Africa with the cheapest, fastest and most stable internet access possible. Within two years of founding Skyrove, wireless hotspots have mushroomed locally, and the company is entering Angola, Mozambique and Botswana. Let’s hope Henk Kleynhans’ ambition is realised. |
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| JUNE 2008 | ITWeb Brainstorm | Sitting on a wireless goldmine |
| A web junkie from UCT soon realised that his financial aid would not fund his many hours of surfing. What he needed was a way to not only fund his addiction , but to earn some extra money too. This was the beginning of Skyrove. | ||
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| NOV 2007 | UCT News | Wireless technology makes Internet affordable |
| It’s a well known fact that Internet access in South Africa is among the most expensive in the world. In fact, it is said that the average American teenager has access to more bandwidth than a medium-sized business in South Africa. | ||
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| NOV 2007 | Break Water Business Magazine | MBA Grad follows his dreams |
| Born and raised in Germany, Tino Mueller (MBA 2005) has come a long way and not merely in distance. After graduating with a Mechanical Engineering qualification in Germany in 2002, Mueller arrived in South Africa three years later ready to begin an MBA at the GSB. He is now playing a key role at Skyrove, a young technology start-up. | ||
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| AUG 2007 | Entrepreneur Magazine | Sky’s The Limit |
| “THE IDEA HAD been forming gradually in my head and then all of a sudden the entire business plan fell into place at 4 o’clock in the morning before a maths exam. I sat there for about three hours frantically trying to write it all down”, remembers Henk Kleynhands, CEO and founding partner of Skyrove. | ||
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| JUNE 2007 | ITWeb iWeek Magazine | IncuBeta founder offers VC |
| INCUBETA FOUNDER and chief strategy officer Vinny Lingham has established his own venture capital (VC) firm. A “serial entrepreneur”, Lingham founded global search marketing company incuBeta and its subsidiary Clicks2Customers. Last year, Lingham was named the Top ICT Young Entrepreneur in Africa at the ICT Achievers Awards. | ||
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| APRIL 2007 | Financial Mail Campus | The sky’s the limit |
| Start-up opens the way for more entrepreneurs ‘I was a student who couldn’t afford broadband,’ says Henk Kleynhans, the CEO of Skyrove. ‘I thought sharing broadband with my digsmates through WiFi would be a way to make it more affordable for all of us. That’s how I came up with the concept of Skyrove.’ | ||
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| FEBRUARY 2007 | FIN WEEK | Do-it-yourself hotspots |
| WHILE THE CELLULAR NETWORKS are spending billions setting up and punting 3G networks, the WiFi revolution is continuing its steady pace, with more hotspots popping up every day. While large players such as Telkom and MWEB are focused on the high end of the market, emerging player SkyRove is offering a hotspot solution that allows anyone, from individuals at home to small businesses, to set up and operate their own hotspots. | ||
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| SEPTEMBER 2006 | Financial Mail | Skyrove |
| ‘I was a student who couldn’t afford broadband,’ says Henk Kleynhans, the CEO of Skyrove. ‘I thought sharing broadband with my digsmates through WiFi would be a way to make it more affordable for all of us. That’s how I came up with the concept of Skyrove.’ | ||
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| AUGUST 2006 | itweb.co.za | Western Cape shines in TT100 awards |
| That five out of the 10 top emerging companies for this year’s Technology Top 100 (TT100) awards come from the Western Cape shows the high level of IT innovation coming from the province, says TT100 GM Stephan Lamprecht. | ||
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