{"id":109850,"date":"2014-09-26T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=109850"},"modified":"2014-09-26T14:03:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T12:03:52","slug":"top-mobile-data-city-in-sa-by-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/109850-top-mobile-data-city-in-sa-by-usage.html","title":{"rendered":"Top mobile data city in SA by usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg is by far the biggest consumer of mobile data in South Africa, Vodacom\u2019s data usage statistics from July 2014 show.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vodacom, mobile users in Johannesburg burnt through over a petabyte (1 million gigabytes) of data during July, making up 20% of South Africa&#8217;s mobile data consumption.<\/p>\n<p>On Vodacom\u2019s network, Pretoria came in second (7.7%), Cape Town third (7.4%), and Durban fourth (4.8%).<\/p>\n<p>Cell C\u2019s statistics also rank Johannesburg as the city with the highest data consumption in the country, but the Pretoria municipal area (City of Tshwane) is listed fourth \u2014\u00a0behind Cape Town and Durban\u2019s municipal areas.<\/p>\n<p>The top 5 municipalities in terms of Cell C data consumption were (in order): City of Johannesburg, City of Cape Town, eThekwini (Durban), City of Tshwane, and Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on mobile data in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/109832-free-voice-calls-via-messaging-apps-operators-respond.html\"><strong>Free voice calls via messaging apps: operators respond<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/109504-cell-c-rips-into-vodacom-mtn-icasa.html\"><strong>Cell C rips into Vodacom, MTN, Icasa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/109478-cheapest-mobile-data-deals-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Cheapest mobile data deals in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/109032-free-mtn-data-promotion-extended.html\"><strong>Free MTN data promotion extended<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/108622-daily-mobile-data-deal-prices-compared.html\"><strong>Daily mobile data deal prices compared<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom and Cell C have revealed the top cities in South Africa, ranked by mobile data consumption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":96987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35,735,41],"class_list":["post-109850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109874,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109850\/revisions\/109874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}