{"id":55145,"date":"2012-07-25T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=55145"},"modified":"2012-07-25T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T12:08:10","slug":"internet-usage-and-home-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/55145-internet-usage-and-home-language.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet usage and home language"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research by Analytix BI, a South African market research company, shows that South Africa\u2019s English speaking population has by far the highest Internet penetration in the country.<\/p>\n

Analytix BI\u2019s latest report, titled South Africa Country Report: Telecommunications Market, landline use at home in freefall since 2005 and the cellphone\/mobile phone market plateauing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe SA telecoms market will need to encourage significantly higher Internet and data usage to grow revenue,\u201d stated the report.<\/p>\n

Internet penetration and language<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the report <\/strong>Internet usage in the past 7 days was significantly higher among the English speaking population at 45%, compared to the other home languages. Afrikaans speakers had the second highest Internet penetration at 27%.<\/p>\n

The following graph provides an overview of internet penetration related to home language.<\/p>\n

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Internet used over last 7 days<\/p><\/div>\n

Effective Measure\u2019s latest statistics substantiate Analytix BI\u2019s basic statistics, also showing that English and Afrikaans are the most prominent languages among South African Internet users.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that Effective Measure\u2019s survey asked which language Internet users speak at home, which shows higher percentages that Analytix BI\u2019s home language measurement.<\/p>\n

\"Spoken<\/a>

Spoken languages at home<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ever wondered which South Africans use the Internet the most? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":30960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[13491,679,35],"class_list":["post-55145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-analytix-bi","tag-effective-measure","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55145"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55445,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55145\/revisions\/55445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}