South Africa's broadband speeds and prices benchmarked

In South Africa the average fixed residential broadband speed is 12.8Mbps, which is calculated using the average of Telkom’s ADSL products (1Mbps, 2Mbps, 4Mbps, 10Mbps, 20Mbps, and 40Mbps)
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Wow. If all of their research is based on such similarly misleading and superficial statistics this is meaningless. What does their global average bandwidth of 43.5Mbps mean? They found countries which offer limited 1000Mbps service, and irrespective of the number of customers, used it to hugely skew the average upwards?
 
km2 said:
Wow. If all of their research is based on such similarly misleading and superficial statistics this is meaningless. What does their global average bandwidth of 43.5Mbps mean? They found countries which offer limited 1000Mbps service, and irrespective of the number of customers, used it to hugely skew the average upwards?
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Someone is just condensing the numbers for you for clearer message they are trying to push across. That message is you pay a lot more for a lot less in south africa compared to most other countries. But we all knew this already.
 
In South Africa the average fixed residential broadband speed is 12.8Mbps, which is calculated using the average of Telkom’s ADSL products (1Mbps, 2Mbps, 4Mbps, 10Mbps, 20Mbps, and 40Mbps)
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Eish, I may not be a statistician (yet :p) but that's the most nonsensical way of getting an average
 
2012 said:
Someone is just condensing the numbers for you for clearer message they are trying to push across. That message is you pay a lot more for a lot less in south africa compared to most other countries. But we all knew this already.
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This data makes Telkom look a lot better than it really is.

I have no problem with someone condensing numbers in a way that's presents an accurate picture, if say they did a bit of research and saw that 1Mbps ADSL or whatever was the most widely used ADSL product and did the average from that. Here it feels like they're saying the average fixed connection is 12.8Mbps and we pay R114 per megabit for our complete uncapped service. They've gone onto Telkom's website and just averaged the numbers from the product sheet. And if they've done it with Telkom, they've probably done it with all the other countries and it's probably just as wildly inaccurate so you can't properly compare anything.

We just saw the statistics from MyBroadband a week ago that said only a few hundred subscribers had taken up VDSL on 20Mbps or 40Mbps, so when you have 800 000 ADSL subscribers on something that's 10Mbps or less, and a few hundred on 20Mbps or more... claiming an average fixed broadband connection of 12.8Mbps is nuts. It's just very lazy research by this Point-Topic group.

The only people who are even going to see anything close to an "average" of R114 per megabit are those on 10 Mbps or above. If you're an actual average ADSL user on 4Mbps or less you're never going to see less than R150 per megabit for uncapped (Telkom + data).
 
SA on par with Middle East and Africa
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lol.

http://www.netindex.com/download/2,189/Namibia/

Namibia - 7.05Mbps Download Average
This country ranks in 77th place. Results were obtained by analyzing test data between Jun 19, 2013 and Jul 18, 2013. Tests from 50,055 unique IPs have been taken in this country and of 112,621 total tests, 7,813 are being used for the current Index.

http://www.netindex.com/download/2,46/South-Africa/

South Africa - 4.20Mbps Download Average
This country ranks in 122nd place. Results were obtained by analyzing test data between Jun 19, 2013 and Jul 18, 2013. Tests from 1,903,295 unique IPs have been taken in this country and of 5,248,543 total tests, 415,702 are being used for the current Index.
 
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