{"id":73747,"date":"2015-03-31T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T05:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=73747"},"modified":"2015-03-31T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T05:08:00","slug":"mobile-network-smartphone-of-the-south-african-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/73747-mobile-network-smartphone-of-the-south-african-gamer","title":{"rendered":"Mobile network, smartphone of the South African gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyGaming recently conducted a survey of the mobile habits of its readers to see which networks, smartphones, and mobile data provider gamers prefer.<\/p>\n

A quick\u00a0word on demographics: the average MyGaming survey respondent is typically male, in their late twenties, earns between R10,000 and R30,000 per month, lives in one of South Africa\u2019s major urban areas, and mainly games on PC.<\/p>\n

391 people responded to the 2015 MyGaming Mobile Survey.<\/p>\n

The results showed the vast majority of gamers (76%) have an Android smartphone.<\/p>\n

Of those with a smartphone, 47% use a Samsung. The next closest phone brands are Sony (12%) and Apple (11%).<\/p>\n

Vodacom is the most used cellular and mobile data provider.<\/p>\n

It is also worth noting that Afrihost – a reseller of MTN services – outranked Cell C as primary data provider by a decent margin.<\/p>\n

Most gamers (82%) weren’t looking to switch mobile networks, but keep in mind that this survey was conducted before folks noticed Cell C\u2019s price hikes, and before Vodacom announced its contract fee increases.<\/p>\n

Another interesting statistic to emerge was that more than a third of the gamers surveyed didn\u2019t have tablet PCs.<\/p>\n

The infographic below summarises the results of the 2015 MyGaming Mobile Survey.<\/p>\n

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MyGaming Mobile Survey 2015 infographic<\/p><\/div>\n

A discrepancy in the \u201cno tablet\u201d percentages on the primary tablet PC<\/em> and the tablet OS<\/em> questions is due to an overlap with the \u201cno answer\u201d option in the survey.<\/p>\n

If all the \u201cno answers\u201d for the primary tablet PC question are counted as \u201cI don\u2019t own a tablet PC\u201d, then the numbers line up.<\/p>\n

More gaming gear and survey articles<\/h3>\n

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Top smartphones, tablets for gaming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Old-school PCs vs today\u2019s smartphones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Where SA gamers like to eat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results of the MyGaming mobility survey are in – these are your networks and smartphone platforms of choice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":73783,"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":[20],"tags":[947,959,1566,21,1570,1435,71,287,817],"class_list":["post-73747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-samsung","tag-sony","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73747","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\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73789,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73747\/revisions\/73789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}