{"id":191568,"date":"2017-08-10T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=191568"},"modified":"2017-08-10T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:27:15","slug":"how-much-money-south-africans-spend-on-data-every-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/191568\/how-much-money-south-africans-spend-on-data-every-month\/","title":{"rendered":"How much money South Africans spend on data every month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Web browser Opera and digital reading non-profit, Worldreader, have released a new report detailing how much the average South African spends on data each month and what the most popular data bundles are.<\/p>\n

The study is based on the results of over 50,000 male and female respondents between the ages of\u00a014 to 44 across South Africa,\u00a0Nigeria, and Kenya.<\/p>\n

“Data must fall” has been a highly debated topic in the country over the last few months, with the issue coming to a head in the past weeks with new regulations<\/a> <\/strong>being instituted as well as an\u00a0investigation by MyBroadband<\/a> <\/strong>about MTN’s “disappearing data”.<\/p>\n

However various groups have also warned about government’s interference in the telecommunications sector, with fears that excessive governmental control could lead to the industry producing another<\/a> <\/strong>Eskom or South African Airways.<\/p>\n

The report found that women in South Africa typically spend more on mobile data than men each month.<\/p>\n

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Data bundles between 100MB – 1GB are the most popular for both men and women, with popularity steadily declining on the highest data packages.<\/p>\n

However more South Africans opt to buy data bundles over 10GB than those who buy 5GB – 10GB packages.<\/p>\n

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The majority of South Africans use their phone more than eight times a day, with music being the most popular usage for both men and women.<\/p>\n

More than 14% of men attribute their high usage to reading about sports, and a similar amount of women (11%) use their phones for entertainment and gossip news.<\/p>\n

General searches and information tend to dominate search history (24%), followed closely by social media networks (17%), music (17%)\u00a0and news (12%).<\/p>\n

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Read:\u00a0This graph shows how government\u2019s proposed new network could be a huge flop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opera and digital reading non-profit Worldreader have released a new report on how much the average South African spends on data each month and what the most popular data bundles are.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,2965,12132],"class_list":["post-191568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-opera","tag-worldreader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191568"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191648,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568\/revisions\/191648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}