South Africa’s internet landscape is constantly changing, with the rapid rollout of fibre, increased LTE coverage, and better value ADSL packages on the horizon.

But what’s the next big thing? We asked two of South Africa’s top ADSL experts about what they think is the next step for Internet in South Africa.

Joe Botha – Octotel

Joe Botha believes that things will only get faster from here on.

“For the home market, I think the next wave is getting at least a 100Mbps fibre connection to every urban home at a reasonable price.”

“This means upgrading ISP networks to deliver the speeds people expect to see on these new links.”

“The future isn’t that far away either, 1Gbps links are fairly easy to find now,” said Botha.

“We could in theory provide links up to 2.5Gbps – but the copper 1Gbps Ethernet port will be the limit. Expect to see around 900Mbps of actual data transfer.”

Laurie Fialkov – Cybersmart

I don’t see anything really groundbreaking on the horizon, but I do think the following will happen:

• More of our content will be local which will improve latency and provide a much better experience.
• 1Gbps lines will become the standard for fibre connections in South Africa.
• We will also continue to see a greater bundling of products.

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