The Grid, Vodacom’s mobile social network, was originally launched in South Africa in 2008. In 2009, The Grid launched into both Tanzania and Nigeria – both developing African countries with high volumes of mobile web traffic. With effect from today, people from all over the world can sign up and join the social network.
The press release says, among other things, The Grid members can become friends, chat with each other and share content, irrespective of country or network operator.
The Grid can be accessed through its mobi site. Membership is free and members only pay standard data rates to their service provider.
Operations will be based in South Africa with the infrastructure hosted locally by Vodacom Business in their Midrand Data Centre.
Phillip Boshielo, the Executive Head at Vodacom Ventures says: “This international roll-out represents yet another important milestone in the development of The Grid as a leading social network. It’s also a milestone that I am particularly proud of. By making The Grid available to everyone everywhere, we’re harnessing the full power of the mobile web to create a truly global meeting place.”
As of now, The Grid has 2 million registered members in the three countries where their network was operational up to now. I hope the globalization of their service will help to increase the number of active users significantly.
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6 users commented in " The Grid, a South African mobile social network, goes global! "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis is great news. Social networking sites like The Grid enables one to be updated and also to reach out to relatives and friends. Having this application available to your area would empower socialization and your people would have a global meeting point.
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its nice to know that a lot of companies that are based all over the world are taking more and more participation in the globalization of social networking
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The biggest problem with this would be commercialisation, i.e. how are they making money from it. The giants in the social media sphere are struggling (facebook and twitter), even google’s investment in orkut has not been profitable. 2 million people in South Africa is still not a huge market money wise.
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This is good news for social media and African residents. Facebook finally showed the world how to make money with Social Media, so with hardwork and luck, businesses can take their success and duplicate it in other countries.
The Grid will allow African’s to keep in touch in a convenient and inexpensive way.
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Its good to know that Africa is soon catching up with the rest of the world. Socializing will definitely help
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Social media is such a great way to find lost friends and keeping in contact with people only helps with new opportunities. I hope that people use the Grid more and more and that the company prospers.
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