Broadband speeds: SA drops back
South Africa’s average broadband download speed is 3.18Mbps, significantly lower than the global average of 11.66Mbps. This is according to Ookla’s Net Index.
The Net Index website, which uses data from millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net, shows that the average global broadband download speed is 11.66Mbps with an average upload speed 4.26Mbps.
South Africa, in comparison, has an average download speed of 3.18Mbps and an average upload speed of 1.28Mbps.
Good news for South Africa is that this average should lift with Telkom’s plans to boost broadband speeds to 40Mbps.
Telkom recently announced that it will be launching a high-speed broadband pilot project, which will offer residential customers and business users downlink speeds of up to 40Mbps.
Telkom said that the project would be focusing on FTTx (replacing part of its copper infrastructure with optical fibre), and high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) services.
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