{"id":75656,"date":"2015-05-18T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=75656"},"modified":"2015-05-18T14:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:55:04","slug":"south-africas-largest-broadband-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/75656-south-africas-largest-broadband-users","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s largest broadband users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s top ADSL and VDSL subscribers consume well over 1TB each per month, while the average data use on uncapped accounts continues to grow. This was revealed in the latest ISP statistics shared with MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web Africa\u2019s head of connectivity Greg Wright<\/strong> said their average monthly uncapped DSL data consumption is 73GB \u2013 up 16% from a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The ISP\u2019s average monthly data consumption per account ranges from an astounding 609GB on uncapped 40Mbps VDSL accounts, to around 70GB on 4Mbps uncapped ADSL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MWEB CEO Derek Hershaw<\/strong> said people are consuming more and more data. This is partly fueled by higher ADSL speeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our monthly capacity planning we cater for both the growth in our subscriber base as well as a natural growth in consumption per user,\u201d said Hershaw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cybersmart CEO Laurie Fialkov<\/strong> said the average usage by normal users \u2013 excluding the top 8% \u2013 has increased from around 9GB to 27GB per month since uncapped ADSL was launched.<\/p>\n<p>The average usage for the top 8% has come down. This is because Cybersmart started to enforce a\u00a0fair usage policy.<\/p>\n<p>Fialkov said\u00a0many of Cybersmart\u2019s high-end users migrated to its large capped accounts, which served their needs better when combined with the company\u2019s 1,000GB after-hours add-on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe net effect is that the average usage over the entire uncapped customer base has remained pretty static,\u201d he said, adding\u00a0that it creates a fair playing ground.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75658\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Average-uncapped-ADSL-and-VDSL-data-use1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75658\" class=\"wp-image-75658\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Average-uncapped-ADSL-and-VDSL-data-use1.jpg\" alt=\"Average-uncapped-ADSL-and-VDSL-data-use1\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Average uncapped ADSL and VDSL data use &#8211; Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/126569-biggest-adsl-bandwidth-hogs-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Biggest DSL data users in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s top uncapped ADSL and VDSL subscribers consume anywhere between 1TB and 4TB of data per month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Afrihost\u2019s top subscriber<\/strong>, who uses an uncapped 40Mbps account, consumed 4.086TB of data over the last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web Africa\u2019s top user<\/strong>, also on an uncapped 40Mbps VDSL service, consumed 2.3TB in a month.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, not one of <strong>Cybersmart\u2019s top users<\/strong> are on uncapped accounts \u2013 they are all using the ISP\u2019s capped accounts with a \u201c1000 Gigs Night Rider\u201d add-on. The top user consumed 3.6TB of data.<\/p>\n<p>The following infographic provides an overview of some of South Africa\u2019s top DSL data users.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75660\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Top-ADSL-and-VDSL-data-users-in-SA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75660\" class=\"wp-image-75660\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Top-ADSL-and-VDSL-data-users-in-SA.jpg\" alt=\"Top-ADSL-and-VDSL-data-users-in-SA\" width=\"600\" height=\"956\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top ADSL and VDSL data users in SA &#8211; Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/126569-biggest-adsl-bandwidth-hogs-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/126569-biggest-adsl-bandwidth-hogs-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just who are SA&#8217;s biggest bandwidth hogs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":75662,"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":[13980,2674,2378,4964,1969],"class_list":["post-75656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-bandwidth","tag-broadband-1","tag-internet","tag-isp","tag-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75656","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=75656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}