{"id":70498,"date":"2014-11-16T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70498"},"modified":"2014-11-16T07:52:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T05:52:41","slug":"sas-entry-level-broadband-prices-are-not-too-shabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/70498-sas-entry-level-broadband-prices-are-not-too-shabby","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s entry-level broadband prices are not too shabby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Point Topic has released its latest broadband tariff country scorecard, which shows that South Africa performs well when it comes to entry-level broadband pricing. However, it does not rank well with regards to average broadband tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Point Topic\u2019s broadband tariff country scorecard compared the entry-level and average tariffs of 2,950 residential broadband services provided by 279 operators in 82 countries in Q3 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The following chart shows Point Topic\u2019s findings. The countries with the lowest numerical chart ranking are the countries offering the lowest tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study shows that Macedonia offers both the lowest entry-level tariff and the lowest average tariff. Qatar has the highest entry-level tariff, while Bolivia has the highest average tariff ranking,\u201d Point Topic said.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa ranked 18th out of 82 countries for entry-level broadband pricing. This shows that the country has relatively affordable low-end broadband products.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to average pricing, though, the situation did not look as good. Here South Africa ranked 64th out of 82 countries, which points to expensive average broadband prices.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113483\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Broadband-tariff-country-scorecard-Q3-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113483\" class=\"wp-image-113483\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Broadband-tariff-country-scorecard-Q3-2014.png\" alt=\"Broadband tariff country scorecard Q3 2014\" width=\"600\" height=\"996\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broadband tariff country scorecard Q3 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/113481-broadband-prices-in-south-africa-good-and-bad.html\"><strong>Article courtesy of MyBroadband<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/70418-is-dragon-age-inquisition-a-1010-game.html\">Is Dragon Age: Inquisition a 10\/10 game?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70402-mygaming-pc-spend-survey.html\">MyGaming PC spend survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/70396-tony-hawk-pro-skater-making-a-comeback.html\">Tony Hawk Pro Skater making a comeback<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point Topic has released its latest broadband tariff country scorecard, which shows that South Africa performs well when it comes to entry-level broadband pricing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":60515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[13102,21,13104],"class_list":["post-70498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-prices","tag-headline","tag-point-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70498","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70500,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70498\/revisions\/70500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}