{"id":71669,"date":"2015-02-01T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71669"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T09:47:32","slug":"sas-broadband-speeds-big-improvements-but-still-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/71669-sas-broadband-speeds-big-improvements-but-still-rubbish","title":{"rendered":"SA’s broadband speeds: big improvements, but still rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Akamai State of the Internet report shows that despite massive speed increases, South Africa was the only country in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region which failed to reach Akamai’s minimum broadband requirements.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Q3 2014 report was\u00a0based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, and\u00a0provides insight into key global statistics – including connection speeds and broadband adoption across fixed and mobile networks.<\/p>\n

According to the report, South Africa\u2019s average broadband speed was 3.6Mbps. This is below Akamai\u2019s 10Mbps \u201chigh broadband\u201d and 4Mbps \u201cbroadband\u201d thresholds.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly South Africa failed to reach either threshold [in the EMEA region],\u201d Akamai said. It should be noted that South Africa was the only African country listed in the report.<\/p>\n

Average connection speed<\/h3>\n

The global average connection speed was 4.5Mbps in Q3 2014. South Korea once again showed\u00a0the highest average connection speed at 25.3Mbps.<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/a>

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

Average peak connection speed<\/h3>\n

The global average peak connection speed was 24.8Mbps, with Hong Kong enjoying the highest average peak connection speed at 84.6Mbps.<\/p>\n

South Africa had an average peak connection speed of 17.1Mbps \u2013 the lowest in the EMEA region.<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/a>

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

Not all bad news<\/h3>\n

While South Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of broadband speeds, the country is seeing significant growth in both broadband speeds and peak broadband speeds.<\/p>\n

South Africa had the highest yearly average broadband speed growth rate in the EMEA region at 59%.<\/p>\n

South Africa also had the highest yearly average peak broadband speed growth rate in the region\u00a0at 151%.<\/p>\n

The country showed a 202% yearly growth rate in the number of broadband connections (over 4Mbps), and a 211% growth rate in the number of connections over 10Mbps.<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/a>

Average connection speed in South Africa<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Average<\/a>

Average peak connection speed in South Africa<\/p><\/div>\n

\"South<\/a>

South Africa broadband adoption<\/p><\/div>\n

Article courtesy of MyBroadband<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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SA’s broadband speeds are rising rapidly, but we still have a lot of ground to make up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":68642,"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":[13215,13056,21],"class_list":["post-71669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-akamai","tag-best-broadband-speeds","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669","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=71669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71675,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions\/71675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}