{"id":93453,"date":"2016-05-31T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T10:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93453"},"modified":"2016-05-31T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T10:03:37","slug":"this-is-how-much-data-south-africans-use-on-their-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/93453-this-is-how-much-data-south-africans-use-on-their-smartphones","title":{"rendered":"This is how much data South Africans use on their Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom recently <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/123829\/how-much-data-you-consume-on-your-smart-device-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>published<\/strong> <\/a>its end-of-financial-year results, including statistics on how many South Africans use their service, how much they consume, and the most popular contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 14.2 million customers, the average user consumes 572 MB a month.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BusinessTech, Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub said\u00a0that for contract customers, the average monthly usage climbs to 1.2 \u2013 1.3 GB, but is device dependent.<\/p>\n<p>He specifically noted that higher-end devices like the iPhone consumed up to 1.5\u00a0GB a month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do these stats reflect your own usage? How much data do you use each month? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on game prices in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/93029-this-is-how-crazy-the-prices-of-games-are-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>This is how crazy the prices of games are in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/91991-the-south-african-pricing-for-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-is-insane.html\"><strong>The South African pricing for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is insane<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/55940-the-truth-behind-sa-game-prices.html\"><strong>The truth behind SA game prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom recently published its end-of-financial-year results, including statistics on how many South Africans use their service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":90987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812,2226],"tags":[31,15809,18997,817],"class_list":["post-93453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-data","tag-usage","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93453","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93481,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93453\/revisions\/93481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}