{"id":30360,"date":"2013-01-23T02:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T00:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=30360"},"modified":"2013-01-23T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T07:35:04","slug":"1gb-per-user-per-day-for-sa-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/30360\/1gb-per-user-per-day-for-sa-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"1GB per user per day for SA by 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rufus Andrew<\/a>, MD at Nokia Siemens Network<\/a> SA believes that local networks will be able to deliver one gigabyte per user per day by 2020.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Summit TV this week, Andrew said that the challenge for operators will be to deliver on demand as it grows, and at a lower cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne gigabyte per user per day, that\u2019s where we see the market going to. By the year 2020, networks should be able to deliver that,\u201d the MD said when questioned about growth opportunities in SA.<\/p>\n

He said that recent studies put Africa as the fastest growth market in terms of mobile growth, albeit off a low base.<\/p>\n

The company lead pointed out that Africa does not have too much fixed legacy infrastructure to evolve, meaning that it is able to leapfrog straight to top-end mobile technologies. \u201cI think that is starting to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Operators<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew also highlighted studies conducted across the continent, looking at different demographic profiles and different areas, which found that people in the remotest parts have the same expectations in accessing applications from mobile devices as those in urban areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of them have not seen these but they’ve heard of it, they know it, they know what it can do and they want it,\u201d Andrew said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think once they get the necessary coverage the applications and use for the device, there is no question of whether the take-up is there \u2013 we know it will be there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Andrew said that the challenge for operators is to be able to do two things, namely to deliver on demand as it grows, while consumers are also expecting an exponential decline in costs amid a rise in that demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat will be the biggest challenge that operators, especially African operators, will have to face. We have come up with nice solutions for that, but that is a challenge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Andrew said that Nokia<\/a> has come up with concepts like liquid networks “that plug the gap and help operators to achieve that”.<\/p>\n

Government<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew praised government\u2019s ICT initiatives and increased focus on enabling the roll-out of fibre infrastructure, but also questioned whether it was enough. \u201cThere is always more that can be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly the acknowledgement is there now\u2026if you want to really increase your economically active population, if you really want to push up the GDP of the country, firstly the acknowledgement is there that you need broadband penetration. You need to maximise that,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what we’d like to see is more incentives being introduced, but certainly the processes is being made simpler so when you apply for regulatory approvals to roll out fibre, to actually put up the different towers and masts, that these process actually happen quicker, and are more enabling in nature,” Andrew said.<\/p>\n

More on broadband<\/h3>\n

Mobile internet trumps fixed-line<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile broadband domination to continue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

What is this Internet thing?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SA online economy at 2.5% of GDP by 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SA mobile trends revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SA\u2019s real mobile penetration revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mobile broadband can boost SA economy: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rufus Andrew, MD at Nokia Siemens Network SA believes that local networks will be able to deliver one gigabyte per user per day by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,1752,5044,5045,5046],"class_list":["post-30360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-nokia-siemens-network-sa","tag-rufus-andrew","tag-summit-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360","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=30360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30366,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions\/30366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}