South African broadband speeds: 2008 to 2015
Ookla’s Net Index statistics reveal that South Africa’s average download speed has increased by more than 600% over the last seven years.
The Net Index website uses data from millions of test results from Ookla’s Speedtest.net speed test platform to provide statistics on broadband speeds.
Over the last seven years South Africans performed 559 million speed tests using the Speedtest.net service.
The number of daily South African speed tests increased from 9,840 on 1 January 2008 to 381,000 on 18 March 2015.
South African broadband speeds
According to Ookla Net Index stats, South Africa’s average download speed increased from 1,101kbps in January 2008 to 6,923kbps in March 2015.
The statistics also showed that the average upload speed in the country increased from 266kbps in January 2008 to 3,403kbps in March 2015.
The following graph shows the average download and upload speeds in South Africa from January 2008 to March 2015.
South African broadband speeds
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