South African Internet Growth Rates

South Africa is a large economy in the African region. You would imagine that its internet growth rates would be similar to those of its counterparts in developing nations around the world.

However, startling new reports show that South Africa is the second slowest growing internet usage country in Africa. It is second only to Reunion!

"Over the past 10 years, the rest of Africa has grown its internet subscriber base at 10 times the pace of rich, industrialised South Africa. We're a long way off from having satisfactory internet penetration, and must ask ourselves what has gone wrong." said William Stucke, Management Committee member at the Internet Service Providers' Association of SA (Ispa).

Government monopolising internet control and limited meaningul competition in the South African internet environment.

"The end results in terms of the growth of the market and internet penetration are plain to see. We hope that South Africa's poor performance benchmarked against its peers in the rest of the continent will shock regulators and policymakers into rethinking their approach." said Stucke.

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