{"id":545,"date":"2011-12-09T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=545"},"modified":"2011-12-09T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T09:14:57","slug":"fixed-broadband-how-bad-is-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/545\/fixed-broadband-how-bad-is-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed broadband: how bad is SA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)<\/a>\u00a0 recently published their latest broadband statistics, revealing that across the member countries there is an average of 25.1 fixed broadband connections per 100 inhabitants.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark are the fixed line broadband leaders with penetration rates of 38.5%, 38.3% and 37.7% respectively.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the share of DSL and cable subscription in the OECD remains stable (58.8% and 29.5%).<\/p>\n

Fibre-to-the-home<\/a> subscriptions continued to grow and now represent 13% of broadband subscription (3,5% growth in six months).<\/p>\n

In South Africa, Telkom\u2019s<\/a> ADSL<\/a> service is the only consumer fixed line broadband service.<\/p>\n

Telkom recently revealed that they had 795,419 ADSL subscribers at the end of September 2011, translating into a penetration rate of 1.6%.<\/p>\n

The table below shows how South Africa compares with OECD countries when it comes to fixed broadband connections.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Fixed broadband subscriber numbers<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Country<\/strong><\/td>\nDSL<\/strong><\/td>\nCable<\/strong><\/td>\nFibre\/LAN\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nOther\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nTotal<\/strong><\/td>\nTotal subscriptions<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Netherlands<\/td>\n21.2<\/td>\n16.0<\/td>\n1.3<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n38.5<\/td>\n6 392 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Switzerland<\/td>\n27.2<\/td>\n10.6<\/td>\n0.2<\/td>\n0.3<\/td>\n38.3<\/td>\n2 983 281<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Denmark<\/td>\n21.9<\/td>\n10.1<\/td>\n5.0<\/td>\n0.7<\/td>\n37.7<\/td>\n2 090 825<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Korea<\/td>\n5.3<\/td>\n10.4<\/td>\n20.4<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n36.0<\/td>\n17 604 503<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Norway<\/td>\n18.7<\/td>\n10.3<\/td>\n5.7<\/td>\n0.1<\/td>\n34.9<\/td>\n1 703 817<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
France<\/td>\n31.6<\/td>\n2.0<\/td>\n0.2<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n33.8<\/td>\n21 895 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Iceland<\/td>\n29.3<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n4.4<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n33.6<\/td>\n106 896<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United Kingdom<\/td>\n25.5<\/td>\n6.6<\/td>\n0.5<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n32.6<\/td>\n20 274 861<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Germany<\/td>\n28.5<\/td>\n3.8<\/td>\n0.2<\/td>\n0.1<\/td>\n32.6<\/td>\n26 615 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sweden<\/td>\n16.5<\/td>\n6.3<\/td>\n9.0<\/td>\n0.1<\/td>\n31.9<\/td>\n2 995 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States<\/td>\n10.2<\/td>\n15.0<\/td>\n1.8<\/td>\n0.3<\/td>\n27.3<\/td>\n84 672 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Japan<\/td>\n6.0<\/td>\n4.5<\/td>\n16.4<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n27.0<\/td>\n34 360 672<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Zealand<\/td>\n24.4<\/td>\n1.5<\/td>\n0.1<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n26.0<\/td>\n1 138 830<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Australia<\/td>\n19.9<\/td>\n3.9<\/td>\n0.1<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n24.0<\/td>\n5 405 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chile<\/td>\n5.7<\/td>\n5.3<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n11.0<\/td>\n1 883 956<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mexico<\/td>\n8.7<\/td>\n2.1<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n0.1<\/td>\n10.9<\/td>\n11 753 458<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Turkey<\/td>\n9.2<\/td>\n0.5<\/td>\n0.3<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n10.0<\/td>\n7 315 418<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OECD<\/td>\n14.3<\/td>\n7.4<\/td>\n3.3<\/td>\n0.2<\/td>\n25.1<\/td>\n309 429 354<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
South Africa<\/td>\n1.6<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n0.0<\/td>\n1.6<\/td>\n795 419<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Latest OECD broadband statistics reveal how far South Africa lags behind global fixed broadband standards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[58,26,86,65],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-broadband-1","tag-headline","tag-oecd","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}