{"id":42702,"date":"2013-07-23T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=42702"},"modified":"2013-07-26T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:17:56","slug":"broadband-speeds-how-does-sa-stack-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/42702\/broadband-speeds-how-does-sa-stack-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband speeds: how does SA stack up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai Technologies has released its First Quarter 2013 State of the Internet Report, showing that South Africa\u2019s peak average Internet connection speed has exceeded 8Mbps for the first time.<\/p>\n

Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics including connection speeds, attack traffic, and network connectivity and availability, among many others.<\/p>\n

Average Internet connection speed in South Africa<\/h3>\n

South Africa\u2019s average Internet connection speed in Q1 2013 was 2,166kbps \u2013 up from 1,845kbps a year ago.<\/p>\n

While South Africa\u2019s average speed increase is encouraging, it is still lower than the global average of 3.1Mbps.<\/p>\n

South Africa also remained the EMEA country with the lowest average connection speed.<\/p>\n

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Average connection speed<\/p><\/div>\n

Average peak Internet connection speed<\/h3>\n

South Africa\u2019s average peak connection speed, which represents an average of the maximum measured connection speeds, broke the 8Mbps barrier for the first time.<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s average peak Internet connection speed in Q1 2013 was 8,026kbps \u2013 up from 6,087kbps a year ago.<\/p>\n

However, this increase does not bring South Africa closer to the global average peak connection speeds which also saw very strong growth \u2013 increasing to 18.4 Mbps.<\/p>\n

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Average peak connection speed<\/p><\/div>\n

Average Internet connection speed: South Africa vs EMEA<\/h3>\n

The following table shows how South Africa compared to other countries in the EMEA region based on average connection speed.<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/a>

Average Connection Speed by EMEA Country<\/p><\/div>\n

More on broadband in South Africa<\/h3>\n

Mobile broadband speed surprise for South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Good news for Internet speeds in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Surprise loss of 10Mbps+ connectivity in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Akamai State of the Internet Report shows that South Africa\u2019s peak Internet access speed is increasing fast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37027,"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":[5553],"tags":[25,6357],"class_list":["post-42702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-akamai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42702","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=42702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42708,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42702\/revisions\/42708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}