{"id":122067,"date":"2017-11-14T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122067"},"modified":"2017-11-14T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:31:13","slug":"south-african-broadband-tariffs-vs-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/122067-south-african-broadband-tariffs-vs-the-world","title":{"rendered":"South African broadband tariffs vs the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Point Topic has released its Q3 2017 residential broadband\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/point-topic.com\/free-analysis\/residential-broadband-tariffs-ranking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>tariff report<\/strong><\/a>, which shows that South Africa\u2019s entry-level broadband prices are among the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Point Topic\u2019s scorecard compares the entry-level, median, and average residential broadband tariffs in 81 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The data includes fixed broadband services offered over copper, cable, and fibre networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo help provide an easy way of comparing directly, we have taken the PPP data on entry-level, median, and average broadband tariffs, produced rankings, and then compared the variance,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Global pricing<\/h3>\n<p>Albania had the lowest entry-level broadband prices, followed by India, Poland, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa ranks 12 out of 81 countries for its entry-level residential broadband prices \u2013 improving by two places over the last quarter.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the good news ends, however, as the country\u2019s median and average tariffs rank among the worst in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Point Topic\u2019s broadband tariff country scorecard is below. Countries at the top offer the lowest entry-level tariffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Country-scorecard.png\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"218593936\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-236636\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Country-scorecard.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Country-scorecard.png 683w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Country-scorecard-164x400.png 164w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Country-scorecard-176x430.png 176w\" alt=\"Country scorecard\" width=\"640\" height=\"1560\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/234836-adsl-continues-to-decline-with-fibre-taking-the-lead.html\">ADSL continues to decline, with fibre taking the lead<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point Topic has released its Q3 2017 residential broadband\u00a0tariff report, which shows that South Africa\u2019s entry-level broadband prices are among the best in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":86213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[2674,25371,2163],"class_list":["post-122067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-1","tag-entry-level","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}