{"id":81121,"date":"2013-06-26T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81121"},"modified":"2013-06-27T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T06:38:28","slug":"shocking-stats-about-sas-internet-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/81121-shocking-stats-about-sas-internet-quality.html","title":{"rendered":"Shocking stats about SA’s Internet quality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Measurement Lab Research Consortium (M-Lab<\/a>) has recently launched its first locations in Africa, revealing that South Africa\u2019s Internet quality is of the worst in the world.<\/p>\n

Measurement Lab is an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. It uses these tools to provide a global, publicly available source of data on network performance.<\/p>\n

M-Lab launched its first locations in Africa in partnership with TENET<\/a> in South Africa, and KENET in Kenya, Google Africa, and other industry and academic partners.<\/p>\n

Data is now being collected in South Africa and Kenya via local servers for the first time, providing a new source of information about the health and performance of the Internet in Africa.<\/p>\n

Download speed in South Africa<\/h3>\n

The M-Lab data shows that South Africa has close to the worst Internet download speeds in the world.<\/p>\n

According to the platform, South Africa\u2019s average download speed of 0.33Mbps is lower than many other African countries, including Ghana, Tunisia and Morocco.<\/p>\n

The following chart shows exactly how far down the list South Africa finds itself.<\/p>\n

\"Global<\/a>

Global download speeds<\/p><\/div>\n

What is of particular concern is that South Africa\u2019s download speed has decreased over the last few months.<\/p>\n

The M-Lab data shows that South Africa\u2019s average download speed peaked at 0.51Mbps in December 2012, and has steadily declined to its current level of 0.33Mbps.<\/p>\n

\"South<\/a>

South Africa download speed<\/p><\/div>\n

Download speed by region<\/h3>\n

The M-Lab data also provides information about the Internet quality of regions (provinces) within a country. The following chart shows the average download speed of South Africa\u2019s provinces.<\/p>\n

Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape is not listed on the M-Lab website. It is assumed that there is not enough data from these two provinces.<\/p>\n

\"Download<\/a>

Download speed by province in Mbps<\/p><\/div>\n

More on broadband speeds in South Africa<\/h3>\n

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Measurement Lab Research Consortium reveals an inconvenient truth about the Internet Quality in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81129,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[167,35,20133,20131,20135,307],"class_list":["post-81121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-kenet","tag-m-lab","tag-measurement-lab-research-consortium","tag-tenet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81121"}],"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=81121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81131,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81121\/revisions\/81131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}